"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.
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External links Interactive website with recordings and commentary of the Mr. Baptiste's five transcriptions Modern realization of Koromanti #1 Modern realization of Koromanti #2