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A 6 page paper which examines both slavery as an institution and slavery as an experience leading to a culture. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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they study the experiences of enslavement, which often involved the study of a slave culture. The following paper examines the two different types of study and scholarly research and what
the perspectives of both sides offer to the student. Slavery: Institution and Experience The student asks, "To what extent does historical scholarship
distinguish between slavery as an institution, on one hand, and the experience of enslavement on the other?" Clearly they are both very different topics and in examining one author the
paper first addresses slavery experiences in a new light. In Michael Angelo Gomez, Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South the author
illustrates that the cultural and traditional and religious connections that the slaves possessed may well have existed far longer than most have realized. His work focuses on how many slaves
were actually seen for coming from different tribes or cultures and were sometimes displaced accordingly, thus encouraging their cultures in a new land while enslaved.
Gomez notes that many of the Africans who came to the United States as slaves were Muslim and that much of their traditions were somehow seemingly continued in
the new land. One group is illustrated wherein Gomez states that, "the way the Gullahs employed the use of high-low degrees was unique and reflected their ability to adapt a
past tradition to the organization of their slave community."1 Gomez then goes on to present the words of one man, a former slave, who noted that he believed in spirits,
that he was part of a group but that it was "a sacred thing" he could not talk about because it was against his religion.2 Such information suggests, as
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