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...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; The Pinkster King And The King Of Kongo; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments ; Introduction ; 1. Celebrating Pinkster As A Dutch Tradition ; 2. Celebrating Pinkster As An African American Tradition ; 3. In Search Of The Pinkster King ; 4. Slave Kings And Black Brotherhoods In The Atlantic World.
- 5. The Pinkster King As Leader Of A Brotherhood 6. The Demise And Legacy Of The Pinkster Festival ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.