Slave+Culture

Send One Angel Down is a book of hope. To keep their hope alive, they kept their culture. Their culture included songs that would get them through the day, especially if they worked in the fields. A few of these songs would talk about the struggles they had, but mostly they would talk about their hopes of becoming free. They would sing songs about the underground railroad and songs talking about going to the north. These songs were songs also came from Africa. When they came from Africa and had nothing... they knew that they had hope and music.

Here is a link that tells more about slaves musical culture. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/feature.html