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To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America.
Roberts specifically examines the Afro-American trickster and the trickster tale tradition, the conjurer as folk hero, the biblical heroic tradition, and the badman as outlaw hero.

From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom

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    Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
    Publication Date: 01/06/1990
    ISBN13: 9780812213331, 978-0812213331
    ISBN10: 0812213335

    Number of Pages: 240

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    To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as African people and adaptable to their situation in America.
    Roberts specifically examines the Afro-American trickster and the trickster tale tradition, the conjurer as folk hero, the biblical heroic tradition, and the badman as outlaw hero.

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