![]() ![]() Later, the songs served as a political instrument for the abolitionists. Although the oppressors couldn’t understand the lyrics sung in multiple languages, they knew that the music wasįor the singers, the mournful music sustained them during the Middle Passage, and then in the sugarcane and cotton fields. During the Atlantic voyages, White boatswains and ship surgeons wrote in their journals about lamentations sung by the people
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