{"product_id":"pinkster-king-and-the-king-jeroen-dewulf-9781496808813","title":"Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pinkster King and the King of Kongo\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDewulf's focus on the social capital of slaves follows the mutual aid to seventeenth-century Manhattan. He suggests a much stronger impact of Manhattan's first slave community on the development of African American identity in New York and New Jersey than hitherto assumed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the earliest works on slave culture in a North American context concentrated on an assumed process of assimilation according to European standards, later studies pointed out the need to look for indigenous African continuities. \u003ci\u003eThe Pinkster King and the King of Kongo\u003c\/i\u003e suggests the necessity for an increased focus on the substantial contact that many Africans had with European--primarily Portuguese--cultures \u003ci\u003ebefore\u003c\/i\u003e they were shipped as slaves to the Americas. The book has already garnered honors as the winner of the Richard O. Collins Award in African Studies, the New Netherland Institute Hendricks Award, and the Clague and Carol Van Slyke Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jeroen Dewulf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496808819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496808813\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d","brand":"Jeroen Dewulf","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48439441326335,"sku":"9781496808813","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7880272d-8faa-40b1-9453-34962d8f83be.jpg?v=1777177647","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pinkster-king-and-the-king-jeroen-dewulf-9781496808813","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}