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A Griot's History - Identity and Pride Under Slavery (2.8-2.10)

This episode explores how African Americans forged identity, culture, and pride under slavery despite legal systems designed to deny their humanity. We begin with partus sequitur ventrem, explaining how this doctrine shaped African American families, tied slavery to heredity, and helped construct racial taxonomies in the United States. The video then highlights African American self-expression in art, music, and language, showing how enslaved people blended diverse African cultural traditions with local influences to create new forms of meaning and community. We trace how African musical elements like rhythm, call-and-response, and improvisation were adapted under slavery and later shaped distinctly American musical genres. Finally, this lesson examines how changing demographics and public debates influenced the terms African Americans used to identify themselves from the nineteenth century forward, revealing identity as dynamic, political, and self-defined rather than imposed. #AGriotsHistory #APAfricanAmericanStudies #APAAS #AfricanAmericanHistory #SlaveryAndIdentity #PartusSequiturVentrem #AfricanAmericanCulture #BlackMusicHistory #AfricanDiaspora #CulturalResistance #AmericanMusic #BlackIdentity #APHistory #BlackHistory #HistoryEducation