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Jeroen Dewulf has created an attractive new paradigm for the historical analysis of slavery in North America. It rejects the traditional view that the process of cultural assimilation of Blacks to European standards occurred exclusively within the North American context. It also contradicts the thesis of all earlier experts that the Pinkster festival--the most prominent ritual in African American slave communities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century--had its roots in Holland and had been a syncretic Dutch-African American phenomenon forged in the Hudson Valley. This is a work of solid erudition and of exhaustive and extremely difficult research. --Walter Prevenier, coauthor of Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries Pinkster (Pentecost) was one of the great but seldom recalled early African American holidays. Jeroen Dewulf's rich, deeply researched, nuanced study will revive its memory. The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo is a significant addition to understanding black American culture and is important for any student of American folklore. --Graham Russell Gao Hodges, George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University

Jeroen Dewulf has created an attractive new paradigm for the historical analysis of slavery in North America. It rejects the traditional view that the process of cultural assimilation of Blacks to European standards occurred exclusively within the North American context. It also contradicts the thesis of all earlier experts that the Pinkster festival the most prominent ritual in African American slave communities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century had its roots in Holland and had been a syncretic Dutch African American phenomenon forged in the Hudson Valley. This is a work of solid erudition and of exhaustive and extremely difficult research. Walter Prevenier, coauthor of <i>Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries</i></p>

-Jeroen Dewulf has created an attractive new paradigm for the historical analysis of slavery in North America. It rejects the traditional view that the process of cultural assimilation of Blacks to European standards occurred exclusively within the North American context. It also contradicts the thesis of all earlier experts that the Pinkster festival--the most prominent ritual in African American slave communities from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century--had its roots in Holland and had been a syncretic Dutch-African American phenomenon forged in the Hudson Valley. This is a work of solid erudition and of exhaustive and extremely difficult research.---Walter Prevenier, coauthor of Honor, Vengeance, and Social Trouble: Pardon Letters in the Burgundian Low Countries

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Jeroen Dewulf, Berkeley, California, USA is associate professor of Dutch studies at the University of California, and director of Berkeley's Institute of European Studies. He is author of Spirit of Resistance: Dutch Clandestine Literature during the Nazi Occupation and coeditor of Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.

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