Koromanti



"Koromanti" refers to three separate songs from 17th-century Jamaica, which are the earliest extant songs of enslaved Africans. They are also the earliest examples of Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Atlantic music. The music was transcribed by the otherwise unknown Mr. Baptiste in 1688 during a festival, upon the request of Anglo-Irish physician and naturalist Hans Sloane. "Koromanti", alongside transcriptions of the songs "Angola" and "Papa", was published in Sloane's A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica in 1707.