  YOU ARE FORGETING THAT SLAVERY WAS ONLY IN THE SOUTH AND SLAVES OFTEN OUT NUMBER WHITES ON THE plantations. Yes, indeed, after slavery that is when segregation really intenfied. It was after slavery ended that black created the American music that has influenced popular music and youth culture around the world. A good example of black influence on whites is the southern twang. No where in former british colonies do people speak like that. Not in the northern states either. Only in the south. People of the british Isles don't speak like that. I have heard Africans sound like that, for real! LOL :D  YOU'RE A MORON, a delusional MORON. I'm finished with you, it's just the same old thing.......like a parrot. squawk blacks created all music, squawk blacks created all music, squawk whites were assimilated to african culture:rolleyes: The Southern accent is WHITE, Nig..I mean Blacks! picked it up from WHITES. Of course people don't speak like that in British colonies, didn't I tell you, it is owed mostly to the SCOTS IRISH OF APPALACHIA AND THE OZARKS, and due to the confluence of scots irish/celtic, anglo, french, and spanish cultures in the south. Whereas in Australia, NZ, Europe, Canada and the northern US there was not this confluence of cultures or a significant Scots Irish presence, there were no hillbillies and rednecks and cajuns and creoles. Get over it. Blacks lost their African identity almost the second they set foot in America. Any moron realizes this. Except you, you take the cake man.     Wrong again! They had slavery in the North too! and in Britain! and in Brazil, Jamaica, Haiti, all over the Caribbean.:eek:     African slavery is so much the outstanding feature of the South, in the unthinking view of it, that people often forget there had been slaves in all the old colonies. Slaves were auctioned openly in the Market House of Philadelphia; in the shadow of Congregational churches in Rhode Island; in Boston taverns and warehouses; and weekly, sometimes daily, in Merchant's Coffee House of New York. Such Northern heroes of the American Revolution as John Hancock and Benjamin Franklin bought, sold, and owned black people. William Henry Seward, Lincoln's anti-slavery Secretary of State during the Civil War, born in 1801, grew up in Orange County, New York, in a slave-owning family and amid neighbors who owned slaves if they could afford them. The family of Abraham Lincoln himself, when it lived in Pennsylvania in colonial times, owned slaves.[1]     When the minutemen marched off to face the redcoats at Lexington in 1775, the wives, boys and old men they left behind in Framingham took up axes, clubs, and pitchforks and barred themselves in their homes because of a widespread, and widely credited, rumor that the local slaves planned to rise up and massacre the white inhabitants while the militia was away.[2]      Black slavery was only in the American south?? Nah. You need to edumacate you self son.     Slavery in the North never approached the numbers of the South. It was, numerically, a drop in the bucket compared to the South. But the South, comparatively, was itself a drop in the bucket of New World slavery. Roughly a million slaves were brought from Africa to the New World by the Spanish and Portuguese before the first handful reached Virginia. Some 500,000 slaves were brought to the United States (or the colonies it was built from) in the history of the slave trade, which is a mere fraction of the estimated 10 million Africans forced to the Americas during that period.   Every New World colony was, in some sense, a slave colony. French Canada, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Cuba, Brazil -- all of them made their start in an economic system built upon slavery based on race. In all of them, slavery enjoyed the service of the law and the sanction of religion. In all of them the master class had its moments of doubt, and the slaves plotted to escape or rebel.     Over time, slavery flourished in the Upper South and failed to do so in the North. But there were pockets of the North on the eve of the Revolution where slaves played key roles in the economic and social order: New York City and northern New Jersey, rural Pennsylvania, and the shipping towns of Connecticut and Rhode Island. Black populations in some places were much higher than they would be during the 19th century. More than 3,000 blacks lived in Rhode Island in 1748, amounting to 9.1 percent of the population; 4,600 blacks were in New Jersey in 1745, 7.5 percent of the population; and nearly 20,000 blacks lived in New York in 1771, 12.2 percent of the population.[4]