Rituals of Resistance - Jason R. Young
African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery
KORTE INHOUD
In Rituals of Resistance Jason R. Young explores the religious and ritual practices that linked West-Central Africa with the Lowcountry region of Georgia and South Carolina during the era of slavery. The choice of these two sites mirrors the historical trajectory of the transatlantic slave trade which, for centuries, transplanted Kongolese captives to the Lowcountry through the ports of Charleston and Savannah. Analyzing the historical exigencies of slavery and the slave trade that sent not only men and women but also cultural meanings, signs, symbols, and patterns across the Atlantic, Young argues that religion operated as a central form of resistance against slavery and the ideological underpinnings that supported it. Through a series of comparative chapters on Christianity, ritual medicine, burial practices, and transmigration, Young details the manner in which Kongolese people, along with their contemporaries and their progeny who were enslaved in the Americas, utilized religious practices to resist the s...
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2011Uitgever: Louisiana State University Press272 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0807137197ISBN-13: 9780807137192Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2011, paperback, goed exemplaar [Auteur: Young, Jason R.] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: LOUISIANA STATE UNIV PR] [Jaar: 2011] [Titel: Rituals of Resistance / African Atlantic Religion in Kongo and the Lowcountry South in the Era of Slavery]
