CANDIDATE NAME: Giovanni Brown

CENTRE: Excelsior high school

CENTRE NUMBER:

TEACHER’S NAME: Ms Walker

DATE OF SUBMISSION: 16 januray 2017

First of all,the researcher would like to offer his eternal thanks to the Almightty God who blessed him with the perservarance

And the spirit of hard work to complete this research project.He is also using this great opportunity to express gratitude to

Every one which assisted in getting this project done.The researcher is thankful for their guidance and construction of

Criticism as this is what shaped the topic of research to what it has became and for that the researcher is truly grea
Topic: Caribbean economy and slavery

Research topic:How did the different type of enslaved Africans maintain their traditional culture on a typical 18th century plantation

In the British Caribbean,in spite of the restrictions placed on them .

Enslavery was an important period in the bristish west indies in the 18th century.It was comprised of

various sectors aimed at one goal.which was to make a profit no matter what followed through..

Enslavement became common when the cash crop of coffeee,cotton,ect.. began to decline in demands

due to the other suppliers in the east which caused a change in cash crop to suger cane, that

required a large labour force that was very cheap so the british followed the portugesse to import

west Africans , which increase in population over time out numbering the white settlers.This caused the white settles to pass laws

retricting the enslave from certain privilllages.which were enforce due to the planter being the owner and being superior to the

enslaved people,forcing the en slaved to drop their original african cultural forms for british culture.and these system of laws were

abused due to lock of care for the enslave in the 18th century.But the enslaved would simply resist

because man would stick to their cutlure and fight to find some loop hold to perform such culture
forms .the whites made a code that stated clearly that all enslaved were under the supreme rules of GOD followed by the king master

and his household and that enslavement was right because it was in the bible.

Rationale- This research will discuss the variuos ways in which the West Africans managed to keep the link between their culture and

their new home during the period of chattel slavery.

Objectives-

 What led to the retrictions?

 What were the different types of culture forms practiced in West Africa. Before the 18th century ?

 What restriction were placed on enslaved Africans in relation to culture in the 18th century on a sugar plantation?

 Why did the planters retrict the practice of trad itional culture forms on a 18th century sugar plan tation

Data collection- This research used primary and secondary sources. The inclusion of primary sources will give the research the first

Handdetail needed to prove the statement in question correct. Secondary sources such as information form text –

Book, photograph illustrations will be useful in the analysis of the data.

Data presentation – The data will be presented in the from of a research project utilizing journal extracts,

Text books and photography illustration

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The Africans came from a society with rich culture to a dull British Caribbean. They had to recreate Africa in their new homeland to

keep their culture forms alive, while as the property of the British plantation.(footnote)African culture forms are the basic everyday

activities of our ancestors that they brought with them from Africa to keep their heritage alive as well as to survive the harsh realities

of enslavement. On the 18th century plantation planter and the enslaved

Would often bottle because the planter wanted to mold the enslaved in his own ways but the enslaved was stubborn, rebellious and

disregarded the prohibitions against their culture, which help the West Africans to retain some aspects of their culture forms, practices

and beliefs(page 21).this caused the planter to make life on the plantation extremely hard but laws were passed which allowed to the

enslaved to practice on British holidays. Culture forms practiced were: music and dance, language, dress, medicine and food.

Enslaved Africans danced and sang at night and on weekends

They even did this in the Christmas and crop over season they performed the 'john canoe' parade using elaborate headdress and

mask, to show the relationship between the spirit world and social living, the whites didn't understand this and it was permitted. The

Kumina dance and music was used for ancestral worship ,awakes and at funeral(page 43).The enslaved sang to ease the burden of hard

labour. With African music came the instruments such as: drums, rattles, banjos, moth violin, flutes, tambourine and xylophone which

were made out of the environment. Laws were past that the enslaved couldn't use drums has the white settlers found out they were

being used to send out coded messages.

The Africans believed in a creator but they also believed in many spirits this worshipping of spirit was kept alive through the Kumina

and Pocomania religion, which remained vibrant on the plantation

And brightly decorated their music. Myalism was practiced on most estates, the obeah man promised the protection this practice was

done secretly. Upon the arrival of the new enslaved were seasoned and encouraged by the roman catholic to baptized and get married

after a year at the permission of the planter and the two would have to live on the same plantation, this caused a fusion of African and

English religion which resulted in: shangoism(Trinidad) and

Pocomania(revivalism-Jamaica).

On the plantation medicine took the format of herbs to cure illnesses these talents of using herbs as medicine came from the Myal-

man or woman which the white settler was afraid of due to them having position of poison so they band myalism but then hide in

bushes at the far end of the plantation were he/she practices and would be visited

On market days. Has new enslaved Africans arrived they were given the name of the plantation being worked on,they had to acquire

the language of their fellows .It would not always be possible to speak the several African languages, For the plantation would be a

found number of several tribes: Eboes, Ashanti, Yoruba, etc. Has must be remembered that no tribe had a common language. The

planter avoided having too much of one tribe on a plantation, has it could cause them to unite and plot. This caused the merge of

African and English language forming a creole or pig language this was learnt by the telling of stories and fables which were passed

down by word to mouth..

the enslaved were mainly interested in ground provisions. This was due to the fact that they were given a garden as law

statede This garden was used to grow ground provisions, pig and fouls These were used to provide sufficient food for survival

and to make Food from culture. Due to the insufficient supply of rotten food in small proportions that the planter would buy
from white settler that was unfit, for the enslaved. Some enslaved would even sell their food at the market to earn money that

would eventually buy their freedom at the cost of the planter. For field worker clothes were bought from the white settle which

were not needed by them but skilled and domestic enslaved wore better clothes has they were mostly around people of high

society and class .when given material by the planter to make working clothes they would often have left over material which

was used for making tradition dresses .children up to the age of 12 went about the plantation naked.
IT is established that the enslaved Africans did retain aspects of their culture on the planter.through the evidence provided by the

various sources the aspects of music,dance,medicine,dress,language and religion were some of the African

Culture forms that survived on the British Caribbean plantation during 1800s.The need to have an identity and storng determination

To continue to practice their culture were contributing factors as to why the enslaved Africans wanted to retain their culture.Though

they were opposed,the enslaved Africans resisted the attempts of the planter to weaken the practice their culture through secret

worship and use of the British holidays to express themselves through dance and songs.The enslaved Africans proved to the whites

that they would never have been able to fully deculturalize them and in some aspects they evolved or reconstructed their culture in

order to still be in tune or connected to their unique identity as an African.