From trickster to badman : the Black folk hero in slavery and freedom

From trickster to badman : the Black folk hero in slavery and freedom /

To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America. Roberts specifically examines the Afro-America...

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Main Author: Roberts, John W. (John Willie), 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989
Subjects:
African Americans > Folklore.
Folklore > United States > History and criticism.
Heroes > United States > Folklore.
Tricksters > United States.
Folklore > United States > History.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Br'er Rabbit and : Trickster heroes in slavery
  • The power within: the conjurer as folk hero
  • Christian soldiers all: spirituals as heroic expression
  • "You done me wrong": the badman as outlaw hero.

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