African and Native American trickster traditions met side by side in America.

Evidence

Coyote (Native American) and the African Hare had no contact before modern times — another case of INDEPENDENT invention. But here’s a fascinating twist: the African Hare DID travel — it became Br’er Rabbit in America through the slave trade. So in America, the African Hare-trickster (as Br’er Rabbit) and the Native Coyote-trickster ended up on the SAME continent, side by side, each carried or kept by different peoples — African-Americans and Native Americans — both using their trickster to survive oppression. Two trickster-traditions, from Africa and from Native America, meeting on American soil. — , A Year of World Stories, 14926

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Joel Chandler Harris, Zora Neale Hurston, and studies of Br’er Rabbit as coded resistance to slavery. — connects to: Marronage spread into Native American settlements to produce the Black Seminoles
• SEED: An essay on how two colonized peoples each deployed a trickster for survival could become a compelling piece.

Related

• Br’er Rabbit descends from an African hare trickster carried across the Middle Passage (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Marronage spread into Native American settlements to produce the Black Seminoles #exemplifies (0.70)