Almost Dead by Michael Lawrence Dickinson;

Author:Michael Lawrence Dickinson; [Неизв.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3)
Published: 2022-02-04T21:00:00+00:00

Adaptation and Cultural Survival

Whether in the Caribbean or the mainland, port cities were settings for fellowship with the living and the dead. If Kingston represented the largest and most diverse gatherings of captives for collective West African cultural traditions, Philadelphia reflected the breadth of West African cultural adaptability. The City of Brotherly Love was the destination for hundreds of bondspeople from the West Indies and the African continent before the Revolutionary War. But the overwhelming white-dominated city with a growing number of American-born captives necessarily created the setting for cultural retention and extensive adaptation. Equiano’s description of Sundays in Kingston did have some resemblance to the first day of the week and special days in Philadelphia, but the cultural landscape for African-descended peoples there changed dramatically over the eighteenth century. This was a dynamic revealed through the life of “Black Alice” (Figure 4.2).

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