A description of all black denizens of the New Netherland settlement celebrating the Pinkster holiday.
Item
Dublin Core
Title
A description of all black denizens of the New Netherland settlement celebrating the Pinkster holiday.
Subject
An example of cultural assimilation between the colony's black denizens and the Dutch municipality and the white colonists .
Description
An essay description of black people, enslaved or otherwise, participating in the Dutch holiday of celebratory dance and leisure.
Creator
Curtwright, Wesley. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection.
Source
Image ID. 5493239. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. "Account of Negroes on the Pinkster Dutch Holiday." https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ff3ff100-818b-0133-91e5-00505686d14e
Publisher
Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library.
Date
January 1, 1620/ January 1, 1665.
Contributor
Curtwright, Wesley. Writer's Program (New York, NY).
Rights
Public domain.
Relation
Text, essay.
Format
Internet archive.
Language
English.
Type
Text, essay, document.
Identifier
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11928496. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ff3ff100-818b-0133-91e5-00505686d14e
Coverage
New York, NY, 17th century.
Text Item Type Metadata
Text
Description of Black celebration of Dutch holiday.
Original Format
Paper.
Collection
Citation
Curtwright, Wesley. Writer's Program, New York City: Negroes of New York Collection., “A description of all black denizens of the New Netherland settlement celebrating the Pinkster holiday.,” Silences of New York History, accessed April 23, 2024, https://silencesofnyhistory.org/items/show/62.