Summary
When our ancestors were enslaved and brought here, they could not bring the temple walls, the papyri paper with them and could not bring the carved wood, chiseled stone, the beautifully woven, stamped and dyed fabric. They were not allowed to bring their drums, flutes, balaphones, horns and stringed instruments. But, there was one language form they did bring - their braided hair, the style we today call corn- rows. They were not called corn- rows then. We were forced to stop speaking our languages and forced to stop telling our family story, forced to stop braiding the more complex braided, stringed and twisted styles. After a while, we forgot our languages and the names of the different hair symbols.
Cornrows survived the horror of our enslavement, the middle passage, years of ridicule during and after slavery, but made a comeback as part of the Civil Rights Movement of the '60s and '70s.See the full content of this document
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'Cornrows': The Storyteller
More than five thousands ago, African people drew hun- dreds of pictures of themselves on the cave walls of the Tassili Plateau in Northeast ...
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