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- Title
"Only Draw in Your Countrymen": Akan Culture and Community in Colonial New York City.
- Authors
Rucker, Walter
- Abstract
The article discusses the community of Akan speakers from Africa's Gold Coast in colonial New York City, including the Coromantee and Amina peoples. It examines the Dutch West India Company, England's Royal African Company, and the importation of slaves to New York. Topics include Akan cultural identity, Obeah religious practices, and loyalty oaths. The author comments on the trials of slaves Will Ward and Quack Roosevelt for their involvement in series of fires in New York City in 1741, alleged to be a slave conspiracy. Ward's purported involvement in another slave conspiracy in Antigua and a slave rebellion in St. John in the Danish Virgin Islands is also discussed.
- Subjects
NEW York (N.Y.); NEW York (State); UNITED States; AKAN (African people); NEGRO Plot, New York, N.Y., 1741; SLAVERY in the United States; ENSLAVED African Americans; OBEAH (Religion); LOYALTY oaths; SLAVE rebellions; WARD, Will; ROOSEVELT, Quack; COLONIAL United States, ca. 1600-1775; HISTORY
- Publication
Afro-Americans in New York Life & History, 2010, Vol 34, Issue 2, p76
- ISSN
0364-2437
- Publication type
Article