In this weeks seminar we discussed the transport of Africans from Africa to various places in the western hemisphere, the idea of the loss of culture because of this transport, and the African Burial Grounds. Dr. Beatty talked about how a good percentage of Africans were taken from Africa and placed in place such as the Dominicans and Caribbean. This explain the high amount of blacks in those countries today. We also discussed how many historians claim that Africans lost their culture during the Middle Passage. However, this is far from true. Fragments from African society can be seen in many areas of today's modern African American life. For example, the way we speak ( as Dr. Beatty pointed out), the food we eat, the way we interact with one another, out music, and our religion. We are not a lost group of people who just attached ourselves to the way white society was, we have out own customs and traditions. The last thing discussed was the African Burial Grounds trip which I thought was particuarly interesting beecause even though it sits on such sacred ground, I have never heard of it. Also because it was explored and researched by Howard University Students.