Chapter Three

While reading chapter three, I was very interested in the way African Slaves not only influenced colonial culture and by extension American culture,but how they were able to save aspects of their own culture, when the country they were brought to tried everything to destroy it,and in most cases would not let them speak their own language. Most of early slave history has been lost because it was a primarily oral history and by many scholars was not considered to be worth studying until much later. Personally I find it hard to believe that a group of people who were so foundational in helping to build America, and had the largest population were not historicaly represented or even recgonized as people horrible.