Akan drums were used to uplift enslaved individuals on ships and plantations.

Evidence

We know that such drums were used to ‘dance the slaves’ on the ships to fight depression, and on the plantations sometimes rallied the slaves to revolt. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 56

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 56
• XREF: connects to: African slaves carried their full cultures and consciousness into the New World — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 20; Akan ethnicity drove key Suriname slave rebellions