How did African slaves create a new, African American identity? Why did this process vary from region to region?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answers should include:
1. The slave experience varied from colony to colony.
2. The size and density of the slave population largely determined how successfully blacks could maintain a separate cultural identity.
3. The process of establishing African American traditions involved reshaping African and
European customs into something that was neither African nor European.
4. A major turning point in the history of African Americans occurred during the early eighteenth century, when the number of live births exceeded deaths. From then on, the creole population
would always be much larger than that of newly arrived Africans.
5. Slaves protested their debasement in many ways, some in individual acts of violence, others in organized revolt.
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