Author: Ebron, Paulla (NHC Fellow, 2000–01)
Objects, landscapes, orally transmitted stories and songs can complement written records and bring different voices into historical narratives. Cultural history goes across disciplines and beyond written documents to study objects, language, practices, relationships, etc. To understand the lives of Africans brought to the Americas as slaves, we must go beyond written records. Under slavery, social constraints and opportunities determined where African influences were inhibited and where they could flourish.
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