National Geographic History - July 2019

(Sean Pound) #1

TRADITIONS ENDURE
Painted in the late 1700s, “The Old Plantation”
reveals that enslaved communities maintained
practices from their ancestral African cultures,
such as the musical instruments and stick dancing
depicted in this artwork. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
Folk Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia.
BRIDGEMAN/ACI

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