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:
- 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.