The point that i highlighted between the West Africans and the Central Africans was cultural interaction. I choose this because the West and Central Africans both dealt with this Whites (European) Americans directly. The West Africans that was Guinea that were called Wolofs was made into house servants; which means they had to adjust to their masters language, culture, and mixtures between the Africans and Europeans. When the Central Africans arrived to North America some also became house servants and even planters; that cased the Africans to adapt to the Europeans ways and forced to develop their culture.
Some parts of these two different regions of Africans cultures have not been lost. The Europeans placed different groups of Africans to what they was familiar with. If a group of Africans were good planters they gave them the role of growing rice, cotton, and other things; they gave another group of Africans to look over other Africans. But Africans was traced to be using words like ok, bogus, boogie moogie that they were not using before they arrived in North America. Most Africans were able to retain their cultural but in the New World alot of it has changed because of the mixing and habits they adapted to.
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I do agree, many of their original cultures were adapted due to the fact that they were coupled up with other groups of people. Therefore adding on and adapting the heritage they came with, so in a way I'm curious to see if one can really know the culture of the Wolofs or the Angolans without finding traces of other African Civilizations or the Europeans.
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