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lol I was unbanned for a little bit, then once I edited the post, the spam boy re-deleted it and banned me again.

@Fulaman198 Do you know my second post may have been deleted and my "Supper" account was temporarily banned randomly by the spam-bot?

[size=16pt]African influences on knowledge and technology in America pt.3[/size]

[size=15pt]Medicine- Smallpox Inoculation: [/size]

"The knowledge of inoculating oneself against smallpox seems to have been known to West Africans, more specifically the Akan. A slave named Onesimus explained the inoculation procedure to Cotton Mather during the 18th century, he reported to have gotten the knowledge from Africa."

"The most fearsome of all was smallpox, the disease that wiped out so many Native Americans at the time of European settlement, and that also killed large numbers of the English. A terrible epidemic came in 1721, infecting roughly half of Boston’s 11,000 residents. But Boston’s approach to public health changed that year, thanks to an experimental strategy for inoculating citizens with small traces of the disease.

The idea behind this radical new treatment came from Africa, specifically from a slave named Onesimus, who shared his knowledge with Cotton Mather, the town’s leading minister and his legal owner. Boston still suffered dreadfully, but thanks to Onesimus and Mather, the terror linked to smallpox began to recede after Africans rolled up their sleeves—literally—to show Boston how inoculation worked. The story of how Boston began to overcome smallpox illustrates the strife that epidemics can cause, but also the encouraging notion that humans can communicate remedies as quickly as they communicate germs—and that the solutions we most need often come from the places we least expect to find them"

"Mather had come close to choosing a career in medicine, and devoured the scientific publications of the Royal Society in London. As the society began to turn its attention to inoculation practices around the world, Mather realized that he had an extraordinary expert living in his household. Onesimus was a “pretty Intelligent Fellow,” it had become clear to him. When asked if he’d ever had smallpox, Onesimus answered “Yes and No,” explaining that he had been inoculated with a small amount of smallpox, which had left him immune to the disease. Fascinated, Mather asked for details, which Onesimus provided, and showed him his scar. We can almost hear Onesimus speaking in Mather’s accounts, for Mather took the unusual step of writing out his words with the African accent included—the key phrase was, “People take Juice of Small-Pox; and Cutty-skin, and Putt in a Drop.”

Excited, he investigated among other Africans in Boston and realized that it was a widespread practice; indeed, a slave could be expected to fetch a higher price with a scar on his arm, indicating that he was immune. Mather sent the Royal Society his own reports from the wilds of America, eager to prove the relevance of Boston (and by extension, Cotton Mather) to the global crusade against infectious disease. His interviews with Onesimus were crucial. In 1716, writing to an English friend, he promised that he would be ready to promote inoculation if smallpox ever visited the city again."


http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2014/10/17/how-african-slave-helped-boston-fight-smallpox/XFhsMMvTGCeV62YP0XhhZI/story.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inoculation#West_Africa
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3491675?sid=21105624349063&uid=2&uid=4
http://hutchinscenter.fas.harvard.edu/dubois/projects/african-american-national-biography/sample-entries/onesimus-fl-1706-1717-slave-and

In short, [size=13pt]NO[/size]!

https://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9781/02dslaveoriginsnamer.jpg

^^^Answer.

[quote author=Mrs.Chima]Lol. It's cute. Now if I get cussed out saying afram I will come for you! [/quote]Don't sweat..... Goop gotcha covered! lol

B'sides, if folks from the continent can shorthand with "Naija ", "9ja", "Zimbo", "Etho" and expect folks to know what they're talkin' about, then I think we Afr'ams are well known enough for people recognized the name and know the game. No need for formal introductions.

[quote author=Mrs.Chima]Goop....my friend said she like the shortcut Aframs.[/quote]ahaha....Tell her thanks abunch. I wish I could take credit for it, but the term, as far as I know, is at least as old as the traditional annual Afr'am Fest held in Norfolk, VA which has been going strong for more than 30 years. It is a cool lil' abbreviation, though. It sounds more "ethnic" than typing out the compound noun "African-American" all the time. lol

An old recording of Sid Hemphill on the quills(a pan-pipe instrument brought over via the TST from SE Africa, most likely Mozambique), and his band playing military style drums with Africanized polyrhythms in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAFReuS-wug


"Oh yeah, African-American music has absolutely NO relation to African music whatsoever."*Sarcasm*

I guess I could date a foreign girl seriously(I suppose you all mean non-Afr'am blacks), as long as my cultural background is acknowledged and respected, as I've noticed from speaking to non-Afr'am blacks, that they tend to be just as blissfully ignorant of Afr'am history & culture as they claim Afr'ams are to their's.

In fact many of them will simply assume that Afr'ams don't even have our own distinct culture(music, cusinine, dance, folk tales, ceremonies etc.) or that simply American pop/urban culture = Afr'am culture, which couldn't be further from the truth. American pop/urban culture takes bits and pieces from Afr'am culture(mostly new age) NOT the other way around. But all, not even most, aspects of Afr'am culture are necessarily mainstream, nor is most of it based in "urbacenters", seeing as Afr'am culture is largely rooted in rural traditions of the US south, and fairly recently moved and evolved in big urbacenter(NYC,CHI,L.A., etc etc) with the great migration of Afr'am people to large metropolitan areas.

And that's just the tip of the ice berg, as I could go on for days.. But, I suppose it's easier to just buy into pervasive dogma about Afr'ams and who we are instead.

Ya' know, I just realized something posting about this subject just now on another forum that brought me back to memories of my child hood, when I used to play video games(& still do). There are in that list of American instruments of African orgin two instruments inparticular called the Banjo and the Kazoo. It's got me thinking about an old Rareware developed game released on the Nintendo 64 in 1998 I used to play as a child, and LOVED called...................[size=18pt]BANJO & KAZOOIE[/size] which feature two protagonist, one a Bear who plays the Banjo, and a bird who plays....you guessed it, the Kazoo!

https://www.blisteredthumbs.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/MM-Banjo-Kazooie.jpg
^^^^You can also see tootie(banjo's little sister) on the far left, playing what looks like a fife, which may be a link to North Mississippi fife and drum blues.
http://www.cascadeblues.org/History/turner_othar.htm

I would really like to sit down and have a discussion with the developers of that game about their knowledge of AA musical, ethnological, anthropology, now lol. I can't help but think that a historical message was attempting to be broadcast, and that maybe Spiral mountain(the setting where Banjo & Kazooie takes place) is suppose to represent Northern Mississippi Hill Country. It may seem a lil' far fetched at first, but ya' just gotta wonder sometimes.

If you want to hear for yourself just how similar African-American(banjo) blues music to West African(Akonting-ancestor to the banjo) music actually is. Listen here.
http://www.downhomeradioshow.com/ShowMp3s2008/DHRAfricanBanjoRoots.mp3

Other than the difference in language of the chants in the background, you can hardly draw a discernment between the two.

[quote author=H-Star89]Were these instruments used in early blues songs?[/quote]Yes, indeed

"The Memphis Jug Band was an American musical group in the late 1920s and early to mid 1930s.The band featured harmonicas, violins, mandolins, banjos, and guitars, backed by washboards, kazoo, and jugs blown to supply the bass; they played in a variety of musical styles."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUfOB4kjYyA

Here's a vid demonstration of a man playing a mouth bow and singing the blues(Couldn't find one of an African Americans doing it, as it's not popular with AA musicians today).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY1MULY2Gwk

Here's an old recording of One-String-Sam playing his trademark Diddley Bow and adding the vocals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2GlAA5iiG8

Here's extremely rare old track of Big Boy Cleveland playing his song entitled "Quill Blues" recording in 1926.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrzI46D1ZHs

Here's an old vid demonstration of Will Shade playing the Washtub bass with his partner Charlie Burse on the guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6QHkQ2p-iw

[quote author=PAGAN 9JA]stop trying to underestimate our tribes all the time, you AA foolz. we are proud of our tribes that have helped preserve our culture, dignity, morals and respect for elders. you think you are so modern and superior to us tribesmen, YOU ARE WRONG. we are poor but we are happy. you are rich but your lives are so messed up. you ra.pe each other and your divorce rates are so high, etc.
your men dont respect your woman. at home they sexu.ally abuuse their wife and daughter and outside they do it to other women (and men). almost 1 in 4 AA women are abused. even oprah winfrey was abused.[/quote]This has got to be the biggest case of the pot calling the kettle black I have ever seen in my entire life, especically considering African men worldwide are pound for pound considered the most barbaric, deranged, child-r&pe-happy, apes to ever walk this earth. Why do you think it's so hard to get your visas approved to enter the civilized world? And I don't know where you pulled that bogus stat out of your ass about AA men sexually abusing children(Of course, it happens, but I know for certain that's it's not statistically 1 and 4), but since you brought it up lets take a look at how Ape Escaped Nigerian men handle their women & girls

According to a recent study conducted in the Osun and Oyo states in Nigeria, 80% of the 3,118 female students surveyed had experienced sexual abuse. That puts the number of students who have experienced sexual abuse at 2,500 or higher in the two states, a staggering statistic. Of those who had been abused, 31% had experienced abuse before the age of 13, and 80% before the age of 18. Many had experienced abuse in their own homes, at the hands of people who the young women might easily trust: family members, teachers, religious leaders, neighbors, and male friends, among others.
http://www.openequalfree.org/nigerian-school-girls-experience-high-rates-of-sexual-abuse-troubling-statistics/15501

Happy? Yeah, I bet you animalistic, two-faced, billa-bong, f&cks do put on that fake sh*t-grinned smile, in the wake of all this debauchery happening in the newly-dubbed kidnap captial of the world known as Nigeria . The same creepy, deceitful, sh*t-eating, grin that you use when you engage in 419 scams against innocent people, and other acts of criminality at home and ABROAD! So, while you "noble" tribesmen keep telling little girls that it's "tradition" for you to deflower and steal their innocents from them, so they don't go to the authorities(like Nigerian police even do sh*t anyway), you'll continue to have your precious natural resources siphoned by large foreign firms and corps like Exxon, and look at your greedy leaders tucked away, in some enclosed subdivision from you low class primitive tribe apes who are being exploited.

[quote author=H-Star89]whats a black american accent? [/quote]Basically, what's left of the decreolized & depidginized languages that our ancestors spoke(that of which are only 3 surviving creole languages left) upon reaching the shores of America.

[size=18pt]Visit to Nigeria Reveals Roots of African American Home[/size]

https://blog.preservationnation.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Abiribia-Abia-State-Nigeria-300x225.jpg
(In the city of Abiriba in Abia State, Nigeria.)

Our small community of Glade Hill in Franklin County is an agricultural region in the southern part of the state. Tobacco was once the king crop. The county earned its reputation during prohibition as the moonshine capital of the United States. We also claim Booker T. Washington, the great educator, as one of our own.

Our hand-hewn log home was built in 1821 by slaves who brought building techniques with them from West Africa. Daubing, a process utilizing natural earth as the main source for chinking between logs, was used. Family friends from present-day Nigeria verified the African roots of construction techniques such as this during a recent visit to Glade Hill. Based on my 2009 visit to Igboland, I can also attest to the style’s authenticity.

https://blog.preservationnation.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/before-renovation-300x202.jpg
(The Holland homestead in Glade Hill, VA, pre-renovation)
http://blog.preservationnation.org/2010/02/05/visit-to-nigeria-reveals-roots-of-african-american-home/#.UK42ZYczO8A

REVENGE.....

They remember Pride Rock, like we remember the Alamo in Texas.


https://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100502132830/disneyvillains/images/5/52/Lionkingdeath.jpg

East Texan African-American vernacular accent.

But, alas, as diligently as whites tried to stomp out all tangible entities of Africanisms in the slaves, they couldn't manage to get around the cunningness and creativity of them to hide of disguise various forms of their traditions under the nose whites, thus some instruments of African origin did survive the Transatlantic slave trade in America.

https://www.nairaland.com/1106338/list-american-instruments-african-origin#13013691
^^^Here's a thread I made with a list of them.

Zydeco Hip Hop this lovely sunday mownin. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd9am-o95W0



Btw, people......
Zydeco Is Not Cajun(White) Music...
http://www.zydecoevents.com/history2.html
I bring this up because over the last week or so, I've come across media accounts, local and national, on Zydeco. Nearly all describe Zydeco as "Cajun music." To do so is to disrespect the black Creole people of southwest Louisiana who invented it, as well as Cajuns, who have worked hard to preserve French music.

For those interested in learning about the history of Zydeco unfortunately a google search, namely one that links to Wikipedia, is not a sufficient source of information on the true origins, you would probably have to get the information straight from the horse's mouth, Afro-Texan/Louisianian people like me. The birth place of zydeco music is said to be Opelousas, Louisiana(where my maternal grandfather was born and raised) it grew out of jazz and rhythm & blues grooves played with an accordion, and washboard(a clothes washing tool made into a musical instrument played by slaves to supplement the banishment of the African percussions by their white overseers, similar to the advent of steel drum instruments in the Caribbean).

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Zydeco_players_Louisiana_1938.jpg/787px-Zydeco_players_Louisiana_1938.jpg
^^^Two(Afro)Creole musicians playing zydeco on the accordion(left) and the washboard(right) in New Iberia, Louisiana, where the family reunion for my maternal grandmother's side of the family was held this year.

Boy, I swear, people would rather do anything but give African Americans credit for their cultural innovations. lol