The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums

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1. Story
2. Eight months after Stono, the South Carolina assembly passes a comprehensive slave code which, among many other restrictions on movement, assembly, earning and literacy, bars enslaved people from using drums, horns and other loud instruments. Comparable provisions follow in other mainland colonies. The musical consequence is long-run: where drums were banned, the timeline and interlock of West African ensemble practice had to be reconstructed on legal materials — the voice, the body, and stringed instruments.
3. Knowledge
4. Banjo
5. The West African drum ensemble
6. Colonial prohibition of drumming
7. The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums
8. Connections
9. Colonial prohibition of drumming
10. The West African drum ensemble
11. Banjo
12. The West African drum ensemble
13. The Stono Rebellion
14. Blues
15. The Stono Rebellion
16. The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums
17. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
18. Colonial prohibition of drumming
19. West Africa
20. Congo Square, New Orleans
21. The Stono Rebellion
22. The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums
23. New Orleans confines Sunday gatherings to Congo Square
24. European lute
25. The Middle Passage
26. Akonting
27. Ngoni
28. Blackface minstrelsy and the taking of the banjo
29. Hans Sloane records gourd lutes in Jamaica
30. The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums
31. Jefferson names the banjar and its origin
32. Blackface performers take up the banjo
33. Evidence
34. The Act restricted assembly, movement, earning and literacy among enslaved people and barred the use of drums, horns and other loud instruments, the colonial authorities holding that drums functioned as a means of assembly and signalling. V55 verification basis: retrieved in search summary from encyclopaedic and museum accounts; the statute text was not read, and no section or clause number is cited.