Music Through Time - slavery

 In 1860 African girls, boys, men and women were taken and used as slaves in america and the only way they were able to escape or communicate was by singing. They used singing at all kinds of things such as funerals, weddings (if they were aloud one) and they also used them for escape plans and they sang to keep them self's company while they were working for hours in a day, some of them ended up getting out from a women.

The women was Harriet Tubman, She is also known as Moses she is most famous for helping thousands of people get out of the slave states in america. She helped them escape with these underground railroads, She made all kinds of pathways to get them in the other parts of america, they sung one of these songs.

The song was 'wade in the water', this song is about Africans jumping in the water to get there scent off so that the guards or guard dogs couldn't smell them out so they can escape, I think that was an awesome way to get out of that place because it is smart and it also saves them.

It is still important today because family's still get affected from them knowing it was there familys and ancestors that had to go through that and many musicians today still protest this just like the Black Live Matter Movement because these are all important things for everyone