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WHEN PEOPLE SAY SLAVERY NEVER EXISTED…..SHE WAS ON THE FINAL SLAVE SHIP TO AMERICA 🤔 | Keith Wilkins

This drum is one of the earliest surviving African-American objects. It was made by the Akan people of Ghana in West Africa and constructed from wood, vegetable fibre and deer skin. It would have been played at religious ceremonies or social occasions as part of an ensemble, and hit with an open hand. It was probably brought to America on a slave ship in the early 18th century, arriving in Virginia. Despite the oppression of slavery, drumming and other African musical traditions continued in col