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Subject: RE: BS: Are rhetorical questions ruining the BS
From: Azizi - PM
Date: 01 Mar 06 - 02:37 AM

...I want to mention that the name "Cudjoe" is a modification of the name "Kojo". The name "Cudjoe" appears in a number of American {USA} listing of enslaved Africans. It also appears in a listing of names used by African slaves {presumably from Ghana and The Ivory Coast} in Jamaica, 1757, documented by Edward Long {"The History of Jamaica, 3 vols; published in 1774}.

Here's that list of day names as quoted in the 1973 book "Slaves, Free Men, Citizens: West Indian Perspective" {edited by Lambros Comitas & David Lowenthal, Anchor Books, p. 37}:

Monday    -Cudjoe {male}; Juba {female}
Tuesday   -Cubbenah {male}; Beneba {female}
Wednesday -Quaco {male}; Cuba {female}
Thursday -Quao {male}; Abba {female}
Friday    -Cuffee {male};Phibba {female}
Saturday -Quamin {male}; Mimba {female}
Sunday    -Quashee {male}; Quasheba {female}