African American History

The history of African Americans is an era full of stories and events that symbolizes who they are. To be able to look back on where Africans Americans first started to have a constant reminder that describes their bravery, really illustrates how far they’ve come as a people. A lot of African Americans today take their lives for granted because they were people who died for them so that they can have the freedom that they have today. Slavery has been effected and changed today because of music, brutality, freedom, and education. People like Harriet Tubman, who actually cared about the future of African Americans; she didn’t want her people to be enslaved for the rest of their lives. African Americans are made up of so many people like Harriet Tubman, and many others. They are made up of so many things that makes up their history, such as the music they used to send out warnings to each other , the brutality, the heroic scars that were left on their backs when a slave’s master would whip them, and their freedom, the gift that is blessed upon all African Americans today because of a brave heroic woman by the name of Harriet Tubman who knew that there was more in store for her people, she knew that they weren’t meant to work under masters and fields for the rest of their lives. This is why African Americans should be proud of the blood that they have pumping through their veins, how blessed they are to come from such a creative background. African American history is their motivation to be all they can be in life, they are a beautiful people and their history symbolizes that.

One of the things that make up their history is music. Music was the used for all sorts of purposes, it actually saved lives. For example, if a slave had tried to escape, and the slave that was escaping had another slave on look out, if the slave on look out saw a master coming, the slave would begin to sing a song to either tell the slave to run and hide or to keep going and that the coast was clear. Singing was a language to talk to each other no matter what tribe they were from because most of the African Americans that were slaves couldn’t speak English, but they could all sing. So through song they were able to communicate. An old spiritual that is very popular and touching named “I feel like a motherless child”. During the first few years when slavery was abolished, most of the African Americans wanted to forget anything related to the hard times. But some African Americans, mainly educated people, really just wanted to show the world how great these traditional spirituals were. A man named R.N. Dett said “We have this wonderful store of folk music-the melodies of an enslaved people, who poured out their longing, their grief and the aspiration in the one great, universal language. But this store will be of no value unless we utilize it… unless our musical architects take the rough timber of Negro themes and fashion from it music, which