In his survey of Boston slave for-sale ads in the 1700s, Robert E. Desrochers describes a Boston Gazette story of 1733 recounting “the story of a slave woman in Salem, who ... enacted what appears to have been an African-inspired graveside reincarnation ritual. ‘Determined to go into her own Country, as she call’d it,” the woman ‘took a Bottle of Rum & two Biskets ... into the Burying Place ... where she dug a hole & and cover’d em” before taking her own life with a knife.”
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In his survey of Boston slave for-sale ads in the 1700s, Robert E. Desrochers describes a Boston Gazette story of 1733 recounting “the story of a slave woman in Salem, who ... enacted what appears to have been an African-inspired graveside reincarnation ritual. ‘Determined to go into her own Country, as she call’d it,” the woman ‘took a Bottle of Rum & two Biskets ... into the Burying Place ... where she dug a hole & and cover’d em” before taking her own life with a knife.”
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