Here is an online reference to the Counjaille well as to other
pre & post emancipation Black dances:

"Creole Songs Cable Sang
[The Century Magazine
Feburary 1886}

"There were other dances. Only a few years ago I was honored with an invitation, which I had to decline, to see danced the Babouille, the Cata (or Chacta), the Counjaille, and the Calinda. Then there were the Voudou, and the Congo, to describe which would not be pleasant. The latter, called Congo also in Cayenne, Chica in San Domingo, and in the Windward Islands confused under one name with the Calinda, was a kind of Fandango, they say, in which the Madras kerchief held by its tip-ends played a graceful part."

http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/huckfinn/hfcreole.html


Btw, this article also mentions a song that includes the lyrics
""Calalou," says the song, "has an embroidered petticoat, and Lolotte, or Zizi," as it is often sung, "has a--heartache. ..."Poor little Miss Zizi! ..."She has pain, pain in her little heart."

I found that name to be particularly interesting.

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