Ring Shout, Wheel About: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American Slavery

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235 Index Aaron (former slave and abolitionist), 164 abolitionists: Aaron (former slave and abolitionist), 164; Frederick Douglass , 70; Olaudah Equiano, 32–37; Angelina Grimke, 97, 98; Garitt Smith, 95; Harriet Beecher Stowe, 186–88; Harriet Tubman, 126; Armistead Wilson, 139, 140; Thomas Winterbottom, 23 Adams, John (bondsman) 110 Addison, Joseph, 25 African culture continuances: with instruments in West Indies and North America, 68, 100, 102, 112; in Middle Passage, 61–64; in music in North America, 100, 116, 117; in holiday celebration, 107, 108; in North American dance, 90, 100, 113–16; in resistance, 99–101, 126– 27, 123–24, 128; used by whites, 115, 177–79 African Grove Theater, 161, 162, 166, 179, 180, 190 Africanus, Johannes Leo, 18, 19, 21 Alabama, 2, 79, 95, 105, 176 Amacree, Jack (female captive aboard Recovery), 43 American Cotton Planter and Soil of the South, 84, 87 Anglican Church, 76, 104 Apologie de la dance, 25 Archers Festival in the Garden of their Gould, 20 Arkansas, slave testimony, 225n15, 226n34 Armstrong, Mary, 81 Arnold, James, 61 Atlantic Creole, 47, 48 Atlantic Monthly, 169 Atlantic slave trade, 23, 29, 32, 44–47, 51, 54–62 Atwood, Thomas, 73 auction block: in domestic slave trade, 129–39, 144–57; in the West Indies, 66, 68 Aunty Jane (slave woman), 112 Austin, Moses, 132 Baker, Ray Stannard, 1, 2 Ball, Charles, 135 Bamboozled, 196 Bancroft, Frederic, 10 banjo: in black culture, 62, 113, 177; in the blackface minstrel show, 170, 174, 177, 183; in the internal trade, 130, 156; in literature, 184; in music, 124, 130, 173, 174, 182; on the plantation, 74, 113, 120; and stereotypes of blacks, 1, 2, 84, 117, 177, 195; in West Africa, 35, 62 Barbot, James, 59 Barbot, Jean: in Africa, 13, 14, 20, 24, 27, 31; in Middle Passage, 45, 61, 67 barracoon, 46, 47, 49 balls, 109, 113 Barnes, Roan, 123 Barnwell, Rosa, 144 Bass, Nathan, 84, 85 Bassett, John Spencer, 116 Bell, Lavinia, 91 Berlin, Ira, 7, 47 big house, as sites for forced slave performance , 82, 95, 107, 110–13, 118, 125, 127 Bird, Isabella Lucy, 84, 177 236 Index Black Image in the White Mind, The (Frederickson), 2 Black Like You (Strausbaugh), 4 blacks as entertainment: during the holidays, 95; in Middle Passage, 52, 58; in the North, 76–77, on the plantation, 69–70, 80–84, 89, 91–93; in the slave pen, 148, 151–52; in West Indies, 71–72 Bly, Antonio, 60 Bogle, Donald, 4 Bolster, W. Jeffrey, 57 Bosman, William, 22 Bost, W. L., 121, 149 British Parliament, 9, 51, 54, 55, 65, 132 Brown, John, 148, 151–53 Brown, William Alexander, 180 Brown, William Wells, 136, 145, 149, 152 buck and wing, 114, 156 Burwell, Letitia M., 84 Buxton, Thomas F., 49 buzzard loop, 114, 177 Byrd, William, 84 cakewalk, 109, 177 Campbell, Ellen, 89 Campbell, Hettie, 114 Canot, Theodore, 47–49 Carry Me Back (Deyle), 10, 11 Cash, Wilbur J., 113 cash crops: cotton, 69, 70, 132, 137, 138; sugar, 132; tobacco, 72, 73, 132, 134 Catholic, 17, 18, 21, 167 Chaillu, Paul du, 22, 23, 26, 27, 29 Channel (former bondswoman), 124 Chappelle, Dave, 192, 193, 195 Chappelle Show, The, 192 Chevalier, Michael, 167, 168 Chisiza, Dunduzu K., 39 Christopher, Emma, 9 Christy, E. P., 170, 172 Christy Minstrels, 170–77 Civil War, 125, 128, 133, 186, 189, 195 Clarke, Bowling, 137 Claxton, Ecroyde, 55 Cockrell, Dale, 5 Coffin, Levi, 142 coffle: in domestic slave trade, 129– 33, 135, 138–46, 151–52, 157- 58; music in minstrel shows, 176; in West Africa, 46, 67, 68 Cole, John, 112 Coleman, Robin Mean, 4 Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (London Committee), 55 cotillion, 82, 109, 113, 114 Covey, Edward, 83 Crafts, Mary, 92 Cresswell, Nicholas, 74, 102 Crow, Hugh, 53 culture exchanges: in domestic trade, 157, 158; in the Middle Passage, 9, 62–65; on the plantation, 65, 76–77, 108, 113–14 Daily Delta, 94, 95 Daily Picayune, 93 d’Almada, Andre Alvarese, 24 Dancing Master, The (Playford), 25 Davis, John, 79, 82, 92 Davis, Mose, 96, 105 Davis, Viola, 193 Dawson, Anthony, 124, 125 DeBow’s Review, 82, 97, 121 Deburg, William Van, 6 DeCosmo, Janet, 108 Dennison Sam, 5, 162 Devereux, Stephen, 42, 44 Deyle, Steven, 10–11, 176 Dialogue against light, lewde [sic] and lascivious dancing, A (Fetherston ), 18, 19, 21 Diamond (drummer and black sailor aboard slave ship Albany) Dickey, Reverend James H., 138 domestic slave trade: auction block, 153...