Answer:
The songs they sang had lyrics that hid escape plans, survival strategies and dreams back to freedom in beloved Africa.
Step-by-step explanation:
More than 500 years ago, all black knowledge was violently kidnapped from Africa. Transformed into commodities, African men and women were enslaved, raped, and made invisible in the Americas for the enrichment of Europe.
These men and women had all the knowledge about working in agriculture and mining, which they have developed over thousands of years. But besides being denied them the condition of human beings, worthy of respect, all their accumulated knowledge was appropriated by the slave-settlers.
As a cultural element in the formation of African identity, musicality was also one of the most important instruments of resistance to slavery. In the cotton plantations of the United States or in sugarcane plantations in Brazil the songs that the slaves sang hid their escape plans, survival strategies and dreams of freedom back in the beloved Africa.