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** maintain oral traditions, songs | ** maintain oral traditions, songs | ||
** mixture of African and colonial cultures | ** mixture of African and colonial cultures | ||
slave population & distribution | |||
* with growth of tobacco markets in Europe, Maryland and Virginia increased slave labor significantly | |||
* into the 1760s, the slave economy grew in North and South Carolina | |||
[[File:1770 Slavery in the 13 colonies.jpg|none|thumb|American colonial Slave populations as of 1770 (before the American Revolution) with number of slaves and slaves as percentage of total population]] | |||
for Colonial populations, including slaves and free blacks see: | for Colonial populations, including slaves and free blacks see: |