The correct answer to this open question is the following.
Although the question has no references, we can say that the survivors of the Middle Passage "made the new land their own" in the following way.
According to the "Life of Olaudah Aquino," an African slave that arrived in the Americas through the Middle Passage, these black people brought with them all the history, culture, religion, traditions, and customs from their native lands in Africa. The African slaves that made it to Noth America never forgot their roots and still lived them even when they were slaves in the farm fields.