The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo : the forgotten history of America's Dutch-owned slaves /

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 o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Dewulf, Jeroen, 1972- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2017]
Subjects:	Pinkster (Festival) Slavery > New York (State) > History. Dutch > New York (State) > History. African Americans > Social life and customs. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global) SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery.

Table of Contents:

Celebrating Pinkster as a Dutch tradition
Celebrating Pinkster as an African American traditions
In search of the Pinkster king
Slave kings and Black brotherhoods in the Atlantic world
The Pinkster king as leader of a brotherhood
The demise and legacy of the Pinkster festival.