Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves
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ISBN-13:
9781496808813
Veröffentl:
2017
Einband:
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Erscheinungsdatum:
01.01.2017
Seiten:
292
Autor:
Jeroen Dewulf
Gewicht:
660 g
Format:
240x161x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo presents the history of the nation's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. It also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster. Jeroen Dewulf rejects the usual interpretation of this celebration of a "slave king" as a form of carnival. Instead, he shows that it is a ritual rooted in mutual-aid and slave brotherhood traditions. By placing these traditions in an Atlantic context, Dewulf identifies striking parallels to royal election rituals in slave communities elsewhere in the Americas, and he traces these rituals to the ancient Kingdom of Kongo and the impact of Portuguese culture in West-Central Africa.
Presents the history of the US's forgotten Dutch slave community and free Dutch-speaking African Americans from seventeenth-century New Amsterdam to nineteenth-century New York and New Jersey. This book also develops a provocative new interpretation of one of America's most intriguing black folkloric traditions, Pinkster.