Slaves and the Slave Patrol primary document *an incident in Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman, 1857 To what extent were (enslaved and/or free) African Americans able to create meaningful communities? What elements - religion, art/music, family, activism, unity, mutuality, etc?-shaped African-American communities? What obstacles did African - Americans face in creating and maintaining their communities?

Slaves and the Slave Patrol primary document *an incident in Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman, 1857 To what extent were (enslaved and/or free) African Americans able to create meaningful communities? What elements - religion, art/music, family, activism, unity, mutuality, etc?-shaped African-American communities? What obstacles did African - Americans face in creating and maintaining their communities?