Episode 8: The Drum Becomes Contraband – Colonial Suppression of African Music and Communication
September Morning on the Pon Pon Road On the morning of September 9, 1739, twenty enslaved men began moving south along the Pon Pon Road in South Carolina to the deliberate cadence of a drum. Around them lay the Carolina Lowcountry, a landscape of rice plantations, rivers, roads, and extraordinary colonial wealth built through captive…