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ok >===== Original Message From H-NET List for African History and Culture <H-AFRICA@H-NET.MSU.EDU> ===== >Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:53:19 -0600 >From: Steven Mintz ><smintz@UH.EDU> > >X-Posted from H-Slavery > >1. >From: Madge Dresser m-dresser@MERCURY.UWE.AC.UK > >It all depends on what one means by royalty and on how well Europeans >interpreted African kinship connections. I've incorporated a discussion of >the so-called princes of Old Calabar who ended up in Bristol via the >Caribbean and Virginia under the care of Charles Wesley in the 1770's in my >book Slavery Obscured: the social history of the slave trade in an English >provincial port (Continuum Books 2001). Certainly their 'royal status' and >patronage ties with a Bristol slave trader certainly affected the regard in >which they were held. >Madge Dresser >School of History >University of the West of England >Bristol, UK > >2. >From: "Jurretta Heckscher" <jhec@loc.gov> > >Elizabeth Kuebler-Wolf writes: > >" I am curious if work has been done on the white appropriation of the >trope of royalty. I also wonder, is this trope typically limited to >the male gender (I haven't seen any >mention of queens in this discussion)?" > >I don't know the answer to the first question, but it is an interesting >one. On the matter of female royalty: there is at least one narrative >in the WPA Ex-Slave interviews in which a woman who had been enslaved in >Wake County, North Carolina, Hannah Crasson, says that her aunt was "a >royal slave." > >For the page image of the typescript version of the interview in which >she makes her claim, go to > >http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=mesn&fileName=111/mesn111.db&recN um=194 > >Her testimony begins on page 188. > >--Jurretta J. Heckscher
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