Resistance

Dr. Mario Beatty dissected African American’s contain of self culture. He started the lecture asking us what we thought the Africans retained on their way through the Middle Passage. Some of the things that came to my mind were food, dances, dialect, and general culture. These were all correct. The Europeans were able to take physical items from the Africans but the non physical items which they contained could never be tampered with. Until.... the moved to the New World. Once they arrived at the New World, most Africans adapted European culture. They were force feed this culture, and with time were made to accept it. While traveling the Middle Passage some Africans completely resisted the change in culture and thus, formed Maroon Societies. These Maroon Societies were basically little towns or villages in which Africans completely kept their culture in a foreign land. These villages were great for the people, but after about a hundred years the major ones, were destroyed. These destructions go to show the Europeans tyranny on the African Peoples and they’re strong resistance to the New World.