Question

Social Studies

1. Explain how the forced migration of enslaved people from Africa led to cultural difusion and
increased diversity in Louisiana.

Answer 1

No African experience in the colonies was exactly the same. African people found themselves in different physical and social environments in the Chesapeake, the Lowcountry, Louisiana, and the Northern Colonies. Africans asserted new identities, created their own cultures, and resisted enslavement, while helping to build the physical, cultural, and intellectual foundations of colonial North America. By the end of the colonial period, race-based slavery was the law of the land and the basis of the economy. Africans were enslaved for life.

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Answer 2

When the people, who belong to different ethnicity and culture are introduced, willingly or not, into the new territory, they bring their culture and religion with themselves. During the assimilation process, they adopt features of the hegemonic culture, while incorporating elements of their native culture.

In Louisiana, enslaved people came largely from French colonies, in particular from Senegal, Bay of Benin and Congo region, and were ruled by the French law Code Noir. They had greater freedoms than slaves in other American colonies, which led to stronger development of the culture and diversity.

For example, enslaved people were governed in the Catholic faith by there owners, because according to the Code Noir they were beings with a soul. At the same, time they bore African-based spiritual folkways, such as Voodoo, which led to prominent and rich cultural diffusion.