Bush Negro prophetic movements; religions of despair?

• Published in: Bijdragen tot de taal-, land- en volkenkunde land- en volkenkunde, 1977, Vol.133 (1), p.100-135
• Main Authors: Beet, Chris, Velzen, H.U.E. Thoden
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: 18th century; Abolition of slavery; Archives & records; Beets; Boats; Christian missionaries; Christianity; Creoles; Field study; Freight; Gold industry; Maroons (People); Messianism; Prophets; Religion; Rivers; Villages; Workforce
• ISSN: 0006-2294; 2213-4379; 0006-2294
• DOI: 10.1163/22134379-90002627

[...]of the profits from smal1 agricultural holdings (cocoa) and the high earnings in gold and balata extraction, after 1880 the negroes could actually make rapid social progress" (1962: 210). How else could he have inspired confidence in the people to the point that they became hostile to their kith and kin? [...]that he succeeded in bringing together great numbers of Saramaka from many villages to attend long and costly celebrations als0 points to some form of organization around the new leader. b. The movement of Paulus Puly Nearly two decades later, in 1789, the missionary Randt (Staehelin 1913-1919 b: 143) wrote with alarm about Gran Adama, a medicine man who, like Paulus Anake a century later, was revered by the people as God. [...]the Compagnie des Mines d'Or, the main concessionary on the Dutch side of the border, found itself short of supplies of food and without opportunity to ship in more equipment or spare parts. [...]we advocate a cautious step-by-step policy in the search for explanations that would take one cult, or a group of linked cults, as an object of study.