Kellie P. Tindley. Professor Tavel. March 07, 2017. English

Kellie P. Tindley Professor Tavel March 07, 2017 English 204 Sing Those Spiritual Secrets â€Å"My music is not for everyone. It’s only for the strong-willed, the (street) soldiers music. It’s not like party music-I mean, you could gig to it, but it’s spiritual. My music is spiritual. It’s like Negro spirituals, except for the fact that I’m saying ‘We shall overcome.’ I’m saying that we are overcome. -Tupac Shakur- As of 2017 we are 152 years free of slavery in America. But, that doesn’t mean that mentally we as a people aren’t still singing through spirituals. There are many movements that are going on in America as of today that are still fighting for freedom of rights, equality, love and speech. Those empowerment movements beat from the same†¦show more content†¦Then not just known as slaves but as Africans. Africans came from the land in which the rivers and food for hunting flowed abundantly and their land was their land. Africans came from the land where tribal dance and song were praises to the gods or just to rejoice in happiness. Though Africans also kidnapped or own other slaves it wasn’t in brutality and they may even have a chance to escape because they were in their own land. When Africans were brought over to the US territories they had no form of communication with outsiders but only within their own. And, the only way they could hold on to land of t heir home was to still give way to their traditional form of dance and tribal praise. After years of enslavement, the African slaves became Americanized and later converted to African-Americans, understanding English but not all could read or write English. The master’s thought their slaves Christianity; the stories of Moses, Jesus and the Bible in whole. The slaves endure hardship after hardship, that today Americans couldn’t hold the strength capacity to survive. The slaves had white masters that looked at them as nothing more than cattle or property; not all but most. The slaves were field workers of inhuman tolerances, house workers, toys for the master’s children, and forced sexual objects (rape). The slaves may have not known yet how to physically escape the endeavors of their white slave master’s but