This is an essay detailng how slaves found strength and solace in music ehile working during they times of the black atlantic slave trade.

Black Atlantic EssayShane Gladstone The role Music played within the development of slave culture: Focus on The Blues "From the years 1505 to 1870, the world underwent the largest forced migration in history: West Africa was soon to be convulsed by the arrival of Europeans and become the advent of the transatlantic slave trade. Ships from Europe, bound for America, appeared on the horizon, and their captains and sailors - carrying, muskets, swords and shackles - landed …

…leave the Jim Crow laws at the door. This offered a new and beneficial lifestyle for the blacks as well as whites Maybe the interest was that the white people had found a new talent to exploit and from which to make easy money, or perhaps, maybe it was because the whites genuinely understood the cultural significance in the music and respected the talent of this black race enough to overcome racial and cultural differences?