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16390
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In plantation times, Christmas was a time of relative freedom for slaves. The plantation journals and travel accounts often not only record this, but give elaborate descriptions of how the slaves celebrated. In many places in the circum-Caribbean area, including the Old South, the most dramatic feature of the Christmas celebration lay in the wandering groups of costumed players who went from one plantation to another.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 21 Issue 3, Sept 1973,
p120-131
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16406
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A fascinating remnant of the ancient midwinter fire-festival appears today, celebrated regularly on Christmas even and New Year's Eve by the African American people of rural Bladen County.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 19 Issue 4, Nov 1971,
p153-156
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22834
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Old Christmas, known as Welsh Night, occurs twelve days after Christmas because it follows the non-Gregorian calendar. As of 1991, this Christmas tradition was still practiced in Rodanthe on the Outer Banks. In this town, Old Buck, not Santa, would bring gifts to all the people. Other North Carolina traditions with this holiday included: lighting the yule log, decorating the house and lawns, and hanging stockings. In Edenton, Washington, New Bern, and Greenville, blacks called "John Koones" or "De Kooners," in particular, would dress in costumes and go around houses blowing horns and singing in wagons. If a house gave these mummers something, that house would receive good luck throughout the rest of the year.
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34602
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Cameron recalls visiting her grandfather at Buchoi, his rice plantation on the Cape Fear River, at Christmas during her childhood. Central to her recollections are yearly traditions including decorating the house, retrieving the yule log for the celebration, and baking desserts. As much of the preparatory work was conducted by black slaves, Cameron devotes much of the work to detailing interactions between the family and their slaves.
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