Christian conversion and challenge of Dance

I hear where you are coming from Vincent. The context around the communicative patterns of slaves becomes a bit illusive due to the oppressive restraints of slave masters and limited primary source material, however, the particulars on its intent, while relevant, Something that was said in class a few weeks ago, and that I feel is reiterated throughout most of the reading, is this idea that excessive oppression fosters intense creativity, and subsequent pursuit for visibility. Slavery, as a dehumanizing mechanism, fosters creative agency and empowerment, often subversive and coded, within spaces made available to them… I feel there is certainly calculation within these preservations of culture and identity, that the author attempts to articulate (albeit, somewhat speculatively) with his description on the conception of the ring sot, however, there is also an unconscious element inherent within the human spirit, a survivalist impulse and response to the totalized environment of slavery. There is subversive strategy, both intentional and circumstantial, that is being asserted within black enslavement within America. To undermine the enslaved Africans of the ancestral connections and subversions robs them of their heritage, and to overestimate this same quality is to rob them of their creativity, evident within the syncretism of religion, language, literature and dance produced during and after enslavement. ...i have a lot more to say on this...to be continued.