Title Black Yankees : the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England / William D. Piersen

Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1988

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 237 pages) : map Summary This book examines the development of an Afro-American subculture in eighteenth-century New England. Piersen concerns himself not with the machinery of slave control or the political and social disabilities of bondage, but with 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 a predominantly 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-223) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject African Americans -- New England -- History -- 18th century HISTORY -- State & Local. HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. African Americans African Americans -- New England -- History -- 18th century. SUBJECT New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091268 New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 Subject New England United States, New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. United States, Rhode Island -- Minorities. United States, Connecticut -- Minorities. United States, Massachusetts -- Minorities. United States, New Hampshire, Rockingham -- Minorities. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0585084033 9780585084039 1122052375 9781122052375

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