Friday, May 22, 2009
Cion Research Paper
The prompt of slavery songs are interesting. There is a deep underlining meaning behind the songs that contributes to the underground railroad and expressing the pain the slaves felt over their situation. In Cion, there were many methods worked in the underground railroad to make it a successful escape for slaves. Cion mentions numerous escape methods Nicodemus and Abednego used to escape from Fairfield farm. Even though songs were not use in their particular escape, slavery songs were still used by other slaves to reach salvation. I am curious to learn how the masters would deal with the slaves songs, knowing that there is apossbile message behind them. How did these songs begin? Was it a devised plan to create songs as messages for the underground railroad.
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I completely agree that the topic of slavery and songs would be interesting to research. I have also thought about the question you asked. How did the masters treat the slaves that sang.
ReplyDeleteI did not realize we had to write 150 words..sorry. But like I said I think that your topic would be a very good one to write about. Maybe you could even go into as far and see if songs were the same on all plantations or if they differed from farm to farm. Or even research how the kids learned how to decode the secret meaning in the songs. I think it would be very interesting if you researched those two topics.
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