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This is a 5 page paper discussing the various ways in which African American slaves had to suffer from cultural dislocation. The African American slaves suffered a great deal from cultural dislocation from their native homeland in Africa for over two centuries. Cultural dislocation occurs not only from a physical separation from a landscape but also from the customs, religions, laws, family structures and identity which are intrinsically linked with that landscape. Within the African American slave community, personal identities which were linked with their tribal and family units were stripped away upon their arrival in America without being allowed to be reformed. While many slaves adapted to their new circumstances by customizing their community structure and their religion to that of their plantation and Christianity, the basic understanding of the status of a slave was also dislocated as slaves within Africa are allowed rights and often intermarried within the community. The basic condemnation of rights as humans and this division based on color was alien to the Africans and compounded the ability of the slaves to comprehend their situation within their new landscape.
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physical separation from a landscape but also from the customs, religions, laws, family structures and identity which are intrinsically linked with that landscape. Within the African American slave community, personal
identities which were linked with their tribal and family units were stripped away upon their arrival in America without being allowed to be reformed. While many slaves adapted to their
new circumstances by customizing their community structure and their religion to that of their plantation and Christianity, the basic understanding of the status of a slave was also dislocated as
slaves within Africa are allowed rights and often intermarried within the community. The basic condemnation of rights as humans and this division based on color was alien to the Africans
and compounded the ability of the slaves to comprehend their situation within their new landscape. The American slave trade which started in the
early 17th century was said to have brought an estimated 50 million people from Central and West Africa unwillingly from their homelands and is considered one of the first and
largest occurrences of cultural dislocation to have ever taken place. In Jeanine Cantys article "Displacement and Oppression for Urban Americans" (2002) she describes a passage which gives an indication of
the initial feeling which overcame the slaves which was that "at some moment, all ones imprecations, all ones pleas to ancestors, all ones evoking of spirits, sounds in the ears
as the hollowness of ones own voice. At such a moment, he would sense the most dreadful meaning in what had happened. He was alone, abandoned by all he knew
that could have given him support and anchor: village, family, and even his gods" depicting just some of the various ways in which cultural dislocation affected the African slave (Canty,
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