| By the year 1810 the slave trade to the United | | | | They called the believers to hush harbor were they |
| States came to an end and the population of the | | | | mixed freely and practiced their traditional religion. |
| slaves begun to increase naturally. This made way to | | | | However, they did this in secret because the whites |
| the transmission and the preservation of the religious | | | | could not agree because they thought that giving the |
| practices that were African American. The slaves in | | | | slaves the freedom to perform their religious |
| the slave quarters organized their own invisible | | | | ceremonies would give them a chance to plot a |
| institution through signal, passwords and messages | | | | rebellion against their owners and they feared that. |
| that were not understood by the white. | | | | This made the white in America dictate the religion |
| | | | | that then slaves were going to follow. They were |
| It proved very hard for the slave to preserve their | | | | determined to eradicate the non-Christian customs |
| religion in North America. Most of the slaves lived | | | | that the Africans professed. |
| under harsh conditions and they were high death | | | | |
| rates, which reduced their numbers. The salves were | | | | Maintaining the slaves was important to the whites |
| separated from their families and the tribal groups | | | | and if giving the slaves the freedom to practice their |
| and this made it hard for them to practice. For those | | | | religious ceremonies was a threat then they were |
| who tried to practice the concrete efforts of the | | | | going to be denied that freedom. The civil war is the |
| white owners to eradicate the non-Christian customs | | | | central event in the American history consciousness. |
| that saw as heathens made the preservation of the | | | | The historical and the literary elements that were |
| religious tradition difficult. Traditional beliefs, rhythms, | | | | related to the civil war and to reconstruction were |
| isolated songs and beliefs in the in the curative power | | | | many but the main issue was slavery and the slave |
| of roots and the efficacy of the world spirit and the | | | | trade. The co existence of the slave owning south |
| ancestors did not survive well in the nineteenth | | | | with the increasingly anti slavery north made a |
| century. | | | | conflict likely. |
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