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The devil went down to Brooklyn; William Moore Davis and the "Legend of Martense's Lane".
The Brooklyn Historical Society owns a fascinating series of four charcoal and white chalk drawings by the Long Island artist William Moore Davis illustrating the "Legend of Martense's Lane" (Figs. 1-4). This indigenous folktale, probably dating to the Dutch colonial period in Brooklyn, recounts the adventures of a local African American man called Joost, who won a fiddling contest with the devil one night while traveling home via Martense's Lane. A deeper reading of the story in conjunction with an analysis of the drawings and related historical documents offers a revealing glimpse of African American life and its risk folk heritage in Dutch colonial Brooklyn, while also ...
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