The slave community quickly acquired a strong presence in Louisiana.
The colony was not a stable society when slaves arrived, which allowed African culture to maintain a prominent position in the slave community.
The slave community at Monticello was well aware of the relationship.
In practice such penal colonies may be little more than slave communities.
He is also considered as a "hero of slave community".
Some slaves who dared to become literate were punished by having a finger chopped off in front of the whole slave community.
The word spread quickly among southeastern Virginia's slave communities.
He argues that culture developed within the slave community independent of the slaveowners' influence.
The martial art capoeira also grew out of the slave communities.
(This showed the persistence of African traditions within the slave community.)