10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JONCANOE»
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1
American Quarterly Review
A matron attends, who possesses some degree of authority, and is called Queen
of the Sett, and they have always one or two Joncanoe-men, smart youths,
fantastically dressed, and masked so as not to be known. Thus equipped, and ...
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THE AMERICAN QUARTERLY REVIEW
A matron attends, who possesses some degree of authority, and is called Queen
of the Sett, and they have always one or two Joncanoe-men, smart youths,
fantastically dressed, and masked so as not to be known. Thus equipped, and ...
3
The American Quarterly Review
A matron attends, who possesses some degree of authority, and is called Queen
of the Sett, and they have always one or two Joncanoe-men, smart youths,
fantastically dressed, and masked so as not to be known. Thus equipped, and ...
4
A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West ...
A matron attends who possesses some degree of authority, and is called Queen
of the Sett, and they have always one or two Joncanoe-men, smart youths,
fantastically dressed, and masked so as not to be known. Thus equipped, and ...
5
A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West ...
... the master's or manager's house, into which they enter without ceremony, and
where they are joined by the white people in a dance. Some refreshment is given
to them, and the Joncanoe-men, after a display of Amusements of the Slaves.
6
Being Anne Hooper: Moving to Jamaica
Moving to Jamaica Anne Palmer. bar-b-que and dance and came home
extremely late. It was Joy who came in my room and shouted to me, “The
Joncanoe is coming, get up, get up. Mom said that they might get here in about
10 minutes.
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A Practical View of the Present State of Slavery in the West ...
The Joncanoe-men, disrobed of part of their paraphernalia, were the two heroes,
and fought, not for a kingdom but a queen, whom the victor carried off in triumph.
Richard calling out “ A horse! a horse!” Sec. was laughable enough. This farce I ...
8
Jamaican Rock Stars, 1823-1971: The Geologists who Explored ...
Joncanoe was performed in grand style for me in the morning; the man who was
grand performer was dressed something like a French exhibition of tricks, a wig
with a long tail, a white mask before his face, and on his head a kind of baby ...
9
A History of Literature in the Caribbean: English- and ...
The Joncanoe men, disrobed of part of their paraphernalia, were the two heroes
and fought, not for a kingdom but a queen, whom the victor carried off in triumph.
Richard calling out 'a horse! a horse!' etc. was laughable enough ... How the ...
Albert James Arnold, Julio Rodríguez-Luis, J. Michael Dash, 2001
10
Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War
159 Johnson's dictionary, 34 Johnstone, Abraham, 111 "Join Jerusalem Band,"
323 Jolly, Jabez, 119n Joncanoe. See John Canoe Jones, Charles Colcock, 201,
205, 222 Jones, P. Franklin, 243 Jones, Thomas, H., 196, 229 "Jordan, Roll.
