What Africans have Given America?

The first two examples that stand out to me about African retention is enslaved Africans, not free to openly transport kinship, courts, religion, and material cultures, were forced to disguise or abandon them during the middle passage and the Wolof and other Senegambians was the first Africans whose cultural elements and language were assimilated into and retained within the developing culture of America. Both of these examples are showing that the Slaves had to give up their cultural to adopt to the European cultural to fit their life style as house workers and servants. The slaves was retained from practicing what they were use to like religion and material culture; and forced to learn the Europeans ways and life style.

The Wolof and other Senegambians were the first African culture to come into the New World and form the basis of the New World African American culture. The west Africans came first and formed the culture because they had greater opportunity for admixture and interaction with other races more than any other group. When they first came to North America trained as house servants and other jobs that they had to interact with the Europeans. The slaves that had to interact with the Europeans are the ones that formed the New World African American Cultures, the slaves that worked in the field did not interact with the Europeans so they did not have to adapt that much to their life style.