Social Studies - Slave Trade Triangle

For our first assesment in Social Studies, we had to make a map about the slave state that we have learnt before we created the map for the slave trade. After we did all that, we had we had to create a blog post to finish and complete this assessment, in the blog post we had to answer questions that was given about the topic. Here is my blog post that I have completed.

1) Explain the use of Spiritual and what they were.

- Spirituals are songs that the salves sang to express their emotions and to help them escape. After the 2 month boat trip in west Africa the masters went to church except for the slaves because the slaves were not human anymore. While the masters were in the church, the masters thought they were praying to god, but instead they were singing songs to help them escape in their language so the masters didn't know what they were saying.

2) Explain who Harriet Tubman and what the underground railroad was.

- Harriet Tubman was one of the ex slaves that was famous for helping thousands of slaves escape, she used songs to send messages to the slaves. Altogether there were 12 million slaves ,but 1.5 million slaves died on board on the ship, about 10.5 million slaves arrived in America. Harriet Tubman used the underground railroad, which were secret passages used to sneak slaves to escape out of the slave state. Slaves used to swim in the rivers because they didn't have showers so if they went in the rivers than there smell would disappear. If the slaves ran on land than dogs and the masters would be able to track them because of there smell.

3) Write about a spiritual you chose and highlight some lyrics and the hidden messages behind them.

- Wade in the water was one of the spirituals that the slaves sang to send a message to help them escape.

Wade in the water
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Who's that young girl dressed in red
Wade in the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite
Oh, God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in blue
Wade in the water
Must be the children that's coming through,
God's gonna trouble the water, yeah

Wade in the water,…    

- The hidden messages used was wade in the water, what that mean't was that swimming in the water helped to escape. The other hidden message was God's gonna trouble in the water, what that mean was that god is going to stir up the healing water.

4) How are these events still significant today?

- These events are still significant today because in America people still talk about the debate of the slavery's. Slave songs and spirituals are still used today. It influences the creation of the blues, souls, rnb, gospel, rap and rock n roll.