Ryne Beddard
@rybeddard.bsky.social
Scholar of Religion and Race in the Americas | Public History | PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill | Swamp Lover
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RIP Ryne Sandberg
July 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
RIP Ryne Sandberg
I’ve been wanting to see Sinners, but now I have to.
I saw Sinners the other night and I couldn't get over how much it spoke to the new Commonplace piece by @rybeddard.bsky.social which details the links between BaKongo cosmology, Christianity, life/death, conjure bags, and the 1730 Chesapeake Rebellion.🗃️
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The Power of the Dead: BaKongo Inspiration and the Chesapeake Rebellion - Commonplace
Sensitivity to the influence of BaKongo cosmology on Kongo Christianity provides useful context to that argument and can help us better understand the choices made by leaders of the rebellion.
commonplace.online
May 8, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I’ve been wanting to see Sinners, but now I have to.
Reposted by Ryne Beddard
A fascinating piece from @rybeddard.bsky.social is live on @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social today!
NEW on Commonplace: @rybeddard.bsky.social explores "the power of the dead" in his latest piece on the religious forces undergirding the 1730 Chesapeake Rebellion, particularly the interplay between BaKongo cosmologies and Kongo Christianity.
commonplace.online/article/the-...
commonplace.online/article/the-...
The Power of the Dead: BaKongo Inspiration and the Chesapeake Rebellion - Commonplace
Sensitivity to the influence of BaKongo cosmology on Kongo Christianity provides useful context to that argument and can help us better understand the choices made by leaders of the rebellion.
commonplace.online
May 6, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A fascinating piece from @rybeddard.bsky.social is live on @commonplacejrnl.bsky.social today!
Near the mouth of Goose Creek, where my friends and I camped back in high school.
April 30, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Near the mouth of Goose Creek, where my friends and I camped back in high school.
Reposted by Ryne Beddard
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
January 25, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
Smashed records.
Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.
