The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo: The Forgotten History of America's Dutch-Owned Slaves

by Jeroen Dewulf

Winner of the New Netherland Institute Hendricks Award

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496820274
• ISBN13: 9781496820273
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"