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John the Conqueror, also known as High John de Conqueror, John, Jack, and many other folk variants, is a deity from the African-American spiritual system called hoodoo. He is associated with the roots of Ipomoea purga , the John the Conqueror root or John the Conqueroo , to which magical powers are ascribed in African-American folklore ...
According to some scholars, the origin of High John de Conqueror may have originated from African male deities such as Elegua, who is a trickster spirit in West Africa. Zora Neale Hurston documented some history about High John de Conqueror from her discussions with African Americans in the South in her book, ‘‘The Sanctified Church’’.
Another figure described in Gullah lore as flying on occasion and eventually returning to Africa is the folk hero John the Conqueror. Some versions have the Africans shapeshifting into turkey buzzards. Sometimes flight is mentioned as a general ability of select ancestors, outside of the specific context of an African return.
Slavery was institutionalized by the time the first civilizations emerged (such as Sumer in Mesopotamia, [5] which dates back as far as 3500 BC). Slavery features in the Mesopotamian Code of Hammurabi (c. 1750 BC), which refers to it as an established institution. [6] Slavery was widespread in the ancient world in Europe, Asia, the Middle East ...
Mojo Workin': The Old African American Hoodoo System also discusses the "High John the Conqueror root" [247] and myth as well as the "nature sack." [248] In African American folk stories, High John the Conqueror was an African prince who was kidnapped from Africa and enslaved in the United States. He was a trickster and used his wit and charm ...
The first European colonists in Carolina introduced African slavery into the colony in 1670, the year the colony was founded, and Charleston ultimately became the busiest slave port in North America. Slavery spread from the South Carolina Lowcountry first to Georgia, then across the Deep South as Virginia's influence had crossed the ...
Through these and other writings, European writers established a hitherto unheard of connection between a cursed people, Africa and slavery, which laid the ideological groundwork for justifying the transatlantic slave trade. [72] [73] The term "race" was used by the English beginning in the 16th century and referred to family, lineage, and ...
The new constitution effectively abolishes slavery. Central America: Slavery abolished. [109] 1825: Uruguay: Importation of slaves banned. Haiti: France, with warships at the ready, demanded Haiti compensate France for its loss of slaves and its slave colony 1827 United Kingdom Sweden-Norway: Bilateral treaty abolishing the slave trade. [104 ...