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Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
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From 1857 until the fire of 1871
Author: Alfred Theodore Andreas
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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History of Chicago: From 1857 until the fire of 1871
Author: Alfred Theodore Andreas
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 838
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The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo
Author: Jeroen Dewulf
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496808827
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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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 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. Dewulf'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. While 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. The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo suggests the necessity for an increased focus on the substantial contact that many Africans had with European--primarily Portuguese--cultures before 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.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496808827
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
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 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. Dewulf'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. While 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. The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo suggests the necessity for an increased focus on the substantial contact that many Africans had with European--primarily Portuguese--cultures before 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.
Kingdom of Strangers
Author: Zoë Ferraris
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316201766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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A secret grave is unearthed in the desert revealing the bodies of 19 women and the shocking truth that a serial killer has been operating undetected in Jeddah for more than a decade. However, lead inspector Ibrahim Zahrani is distracted by a mystery closer to home. His mistress has suddenly disappeared, but he cannot report her missing since adultery is punishable by death. With nowhere to turn, Ibrahim brings the case to Katya, one of the few women in the police department. Drawn into both investigations, she must be increasingly careful to hide a secret of her own. Portraying the lives of women in one of the most closed cultures in the world, award-winning author Zov ́ Ferraris weaves a tale of psychological suspense around an elusive serial killer and the sinister forces trafficking in human lives in Saudi Arabia.
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 0316201766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
A secret grave is unearthed in the desert revealing the bodies of 19 women and the shocking truth that a serial killer has been operating undetected in Jeddah for more than a decade. However, lead inspector Ibrahim Zahrani is distracted by a mystery closer to home. His mistress has suddenly disappeared, but he cannot report her missing since adultery is punishable by death. With nowhere to turn, Ibrahim brings the case to Katya, one of the few women in the police department. Drawn into both investigations, she must be increasingly careful to hide a secret of her own. Portraying the lives of women in one of the most closed cultures in the world, award-winning author Zov ́ Ferraris weaves a tale of psychological suspense around an elusive serial killer and the sinister forces trafficking in human lives in Saudi Arabia.
The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. Congress
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1444
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The Cult of Kingship in Anglo-Saxon England
Author: William A. Chaney
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520014015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520014015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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History of all nations, from the earliest periods to the present time; or, Universal History: in which the history of every nation, ancient and modern, is seperately given
Author: S.G Goodrich
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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Languages : en
Pages : 664
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The Congressional globe
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Languages : en
Pages : 1442
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Pages : 1442
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The Texas Civil Appeals Reports
Author: Texas. Court of Civil Appeals
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Cases argued and determined in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas.
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 762
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Cases argued and determined in the Courts of Civil Appeals of the State of Texas.