The South Carolina Negro Act prohibits drums

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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.

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