During antebellum America, a hush harbor was a place where slaves would gather in secret to practice religious traditions.

The slaves killed their masters and gathered on a mountain, around 100 strong.

Finally, Ishmael sent a quiet signal, and the slaves left their stations and gathered in the center of the hangar floor.

In the spring of 1845, a slave gathered enough courage to ask his master to allow him to form a church for the slaves to worship.

(Most accounts said only the leaders were mounted, and historians believe it unlikely the slaves could have gathered so many mounts.)

He would continue on course toward the spaceport, where the human slaves had been gathering for the last two trillion nanoseconds.

They passed an orchard where slaves were gathering fruit, tended by an overseer who might have been Odina's sister.

Niall would lead them to the small square in which the slaves had gathered that morning.

The slaves gathered themselves, closing the gaps and fighting back.

To add to the dance element of the practise, other slaves would gather around the competitive fighters.