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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Jason R Young |
ISBN: | 9780807137192 0807137197 |
OCLC Number: | 709891214 |
Description: | xii, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Kongo in the lowcountry -- Saline sacraments, water ritual, and the spirits of the deep : Christian conversion in Kongo and along the sea islands of the deep South -- Minkisi, conjure bags, and the African Atlantic religious complex -- Burial markers and other remembrances of the dead. |
Responsibility: | Jason R. Young. |
Abstract:
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. These two sites mirror the historical trajectory of the transatlantic slave trade which, for centuries, transplanted Kongolese captives to the Lowcountry through Charleston and Savannah.
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