Slaves were forced to dance during the Middle Passage because when the ship arrived in the destination they would have to be fit enough to work.
They were slaves in the kingdom or they maintained the household
"Limbo" is a poem by Edward Kamau Brathwaite, a carribean poet in the 1930s about slavery and the boat journey of slaves being transfered from their native countries. Limbo is sprititually the place in between heaven and hell, a comfortable home. The slaves find comfort in the suspense, and paradoxically the continuos rythm of the game of limbo.
The slaves created the macarana.
Yes, Giuseppe Verdi wrote Nabucco, Chorus of Hebrew Slaves.
In the mid-1600s in America, before tap dance shoes were invented, the bare soles of slaves walking rhythmically across the wood decks of river boats combined with the energetic steps of the Irish jig and the Lancashire clog.
To keep them healthy ( excercise)
They often died during the journey to North America
It wasn't America that forced Africans into America, it was Ronald McDonald. He had a major grudge against black people so he decided to bring them to America to be made into hamburgers (some of the first big macs were made of black people). But he earned more money by selling them off as slaves. Also yes they were forced in America.
because they were forced to America to work as slaves
Well this is just a guess but if they were forced to come to America to be slaves, maybe there owners payed for them?
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The Middle Passage
Not at all. They were forced to become slaves and work for the whites.
The trail of tears :)
They were taken on crowded boats from Africa, and forced to jump off the boat or continue on with the rough journey to America! Taa-Taa! (failure) Go to this link -----> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_ship
The Middle Passage
Desperation