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<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&recNum=194 Her testimony begins on page 188. --Jurretta J. Heckscher
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