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Black Yankees : The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-century New England
author
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Piersen, William Dillon.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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0870235869
print isbn13
:
9780870235863
ebook isbn13
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9780585084039
language
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English
subject
African Americans--New England--History--18th century, New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
publication date
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1988
lcc
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E185.917.P54 1988eb
ddc
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974/.00496073
subject
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African Americans--New England--History--18th century, New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Black Yankees
The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England
William D. Piersen
The University of Massachusetts Press Amherst
Page iv
Publication of this book was assisted by the American Council of Learned Societies under a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Copyright 1988 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Set in Linoterm Janson Printed by Cushing-Malloy and bound by John Dekker & Sons
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Piersen, William Dillon, 1942 Black Yankees. Bibliography : p. Includes index. 1. Afro-AmericansNew EnglandHistory18th century. 2. New EnglandHistoryColonial period, ca. 16001775. I. Title. E185.917.P54 1988 974'.00496073 87-13862 ISBN 0-87023-587-7 (pbk. : alk. paper)
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
Page v
Dedicated to those who have shown me the way: George E. Brooks, Jr., Richard M. Dorson, Melville J. Herskovits, Peter H. Wood, and the students of Fisk University
Page vii
CONTENTS
Introduction
ix
Part 1 African Immigrants and Black Yankees
1 New Slaves in a New World
3
2 A Clustered Minority
14
Part 2 The Forces of Enculturation
3 Family Slavery
25
4 The Training of Servants
37
5 A Christianity for Slaves
49
Part 3 The Blending of Traditions
6 The Great Awakening: What Might Have Been
65
7 An Afro-American Folk Religion
74
8 To Build a Family
87
9 Aspects of Black Folklife
96
Part 4 In Celebration of Afro-American Culture
10 Black Kings and Governors
117
11 The Functions and Character of Black Government
129
Page viii
Part 5 On Resistance: A Summary Conclusion
12 A Resistant Accommodation
143
Appendix
161
Notes
177
Index
225
Page ix
INTRODUCTION
This book examines the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England. It is not so much a history of slavery in the Northeast as it is a historical study of the building of American culture, in this case from an Afro-American and interdisciplinary perspective. I am not primarily concerned with the machinery of slave control or the political and social disabilities of bondage since these topics remain well covered in Lorenzo J. Greene's classic study The Negro in Colonial New England.1 Instead, I examine the processes of cultural change and creation from the black bondsman's point of view. What was it like to be an African immigrant in colonial New England? What attitudes and assumptions underlay the Afro-American response to Yankee culture? What does the development within the confines of predominately white and ethnocentric New England of an Afro-American folk culture in religion, public rituals, folk arts and crafts, social mores, and daily behavior say about the creation of American culture?
On the face of it, the master class called the tunes and slaves danced the beat. Blacks who were taken into New England's bondage were clearly engulfed in a pervasive, narrow-minded Euro-American society that had no interest in fostering Afro-American autonomy. The New England experience was often cruel, and the numbers alone suggest it was among the most unequal of black/white cultural contacts in the New World. Nonetheless, despite the strictures of bondage, the black Yankees of eighteenth-century New England created a sustaining folk culture of their own.
Far more than we might have imagined, during the eighteenth century
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