Yet within a very short span of time, the enslaved formed new familial relationships with one another. Partners established into family units, nurturing descendants in their own homes. However basic these homes might be, they became the focal point for rising new generations, born into slavery, who were taught the dangers and risks of life on a plantation and in the world at large. Relationships between individuals, with other members of the slave community and with White owners, all were explained and learned within the slave family.
The slave family was, of course, part of a broader slave community, which developed its own cultural patterns. Customs were emerged not only from the immediate plantation but also from memories and survivals
The slave family was, of course, part of a broader slave community, which developed its own cultural patterns. Customs were emerged not only from the immediate plantation but also from memories and survivals