slaves songs

the slaves wanted preservate their african culture with the music ,for this they invented their own types of song whose adapted elements of African and European musical traditions. Today, slave music is groupped in three major categories :religious,work and recreationals songs.The work songs helped slaves to synchronyze the group tasks and eased the burden of difficult labor.Slaves sings the recreationnal songs for share their hopes and dreams between them during the free time. THe religious songs were singed by christians slaves who ask to god the freedom and the equality between races