Was acculturation through slavery forced on African Americans? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
Varies. Acculturation through slavery was a process that was forced. African Americans were a colonized minority group and unwilling participants in the system. Unfortunately, they had little choice but to adjust to the conditions established by the plantation elite. Whites suppressed slaves' expression of their home cultures and constrained them in many other ways. Most slaves' survival dependent on acculturation. While slaves developed new cultural norms and social relationships in response to the acculturation process, they were not given many options.
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