This is the real Jingle Bell.
Many Africans celebrate it during Christmas, often singing the popular song Jingle Bells.
However, history tells a painful story: these bells were once placed on African ancestors to prevent their escape. If anyone tried to flee during the night, the sound of the bells made it easier for dogs and captors to track them.
Today, Africans sing and celebrate this song alongside the descendants of colonialists, often unaware that it symbolizes the suffering endured by our ancestors
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The song "Jingle Bells," written in 1857 by James Lord Pierpont as "One Horse Open Sleigh," celebrates sleigh bells on horse-drawn sleighs during winter festivities in Massachusetts and has no connection to bells used on enslaved Africans to prevent escape.
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