There are a considerable amount of cultures that have been lost. One example of this are the Mayans who prevailed for a long time but suddenly disappeared; and some others have remained until present days, like for example the culture of the Kuna Indians in Panama. The way people feel and express themselves is amazing, but how people portray their feelings in spoken and written words is even more stunning. African American people know how to maintain their history through time, feeling it in every breath they take. Inside African American songs and poems, there are various aspects hidden that give us a positive and negative insight of their culture. Indeed, the only way to escape from all the tribulations that might have occurred in their life was to create a way of expressing how they really felt. Music and poetry are ways of expression, and African Americans found a way to express their sorrow due to the discrimination caused by their skin color. Additionally as it was stated before, music and poetry were used by blacks to communicate their misfortunes. In black’s history music and poems are taken as the majors references regarding black’s social, economic, and psychological states[Luq09]. Searching for peace in some places, black people utilized letters and spoken word in order to liberate themselves from the oppression of their masters. However, when they were in Africa, they created songs to express the way they felt before 1619, and it was the only way they knew how to express as a community since there were not many people who could read neither write. Music and poetry for black people was of great importance, since it was through these ways of expressions that African Americans showed their feelings, and in some way gained strength to continue and survive through the battle of slavery. Firstly, music is very crucial for black people; indeed, in the African culture, music receives an immense amount of importance. According to "A brief background and history of African Music", an article in Exploring Africa, a website that focus especially in African History, Early historical accounts of music and dance among Africans can be found in oral literature that take different forms such as folk tales, myths, epics, praise poems and historical accounts on rituals. Music and dance in Africa have served both utilitarian and aesthetic functions. The utilitarian function involves the use of music in everyday activities, including music at the child’s naming ceremonies, child rearing practices, initiation rights, agricultural activities, national ceremonies, war times, religious ceremonies and those meant for the dead. Because of the traditions rhythms, songs, and dances, those that were sent to America by the British kept their traditions, just as if they were in Africa. In fact, this allowed them to connect their roots and feel more like at home. As a matter of fact, that is how slave’s songs started after 1619, in the times of slavery, when the slaves could not talk but only sing when they were doing what their masters ordained. Most slaves could neither read nor write. Some of them, when the slavery began, were sent to America without knowing the actual reason. African Americans started to write and read because a few masters were acquiescent, and taught some slaves how to read and write, but not all of them had that privilege. The first African American poet was Lucy Terry who wrote “Bars Fight” in 1746[Kil08]. Joanne V. Gabbin, a recognized teacher of African American