Jeroen Dewulf

Broschiertes Buch

Pinkster King and the King of Kongo

The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves

Beschreibung

Presents the history of America'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.

Autor

Jeroen Dewulf, Berkeley, California, is associate professor of Dutch studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and director of Berkeley's Institute of European Studies. For his research on the early Dutch history of New York and the first slave community on Manhattan, he was distinguished with the Hendricks Award, the Clague and Carol Van Slyke Prize, and the Robert O. Collins Award in African Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of Mississippi
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781496820273
• ISBN-10: 1496820274
• Artikelnr.: 52614137