230 | המשכיות ושינוי : גמלאיות שלא פרשו In all my projects, I was critically redirected by what I came to call red lights . These were reports of events or attitudes that provided evidence of a basic flaw in my working paradigm and led me to try to create another . In this first work it was the sound of the enslaved laughing . On May 28, 1710, James De Gignillat, reporting to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel from Santee in Carolina, had to report, like others, that few blacks were converting . De Gignillat added that when Africans are baptized "other slaves laugh at them" ( Williams & Waddell, n . d . , p . 109 ) . This laughter suggests the strong self - esteem of many first - generation enslaved Africans : They saw white Christianity as laughable, and rejected it ( see Sobel, 1979, p . 41 ) . Black laughter was often reported across the history of slavery, and always seemed to threaten whites in authority . The book, Trabelin' On : The Slave Journey to an Afro - Baptist ...
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