John the Conqueror second cousin/That little Johnny Conqueroo", and in "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" it is called "John De Conquer Blue". John the Conqueror was an African prince who was sold as a slave in the Americas. Despite his enslavement, his spirit was never broken and he survived in folklore as a sort of a trickster figure, because of the tricks he played to evade his masters. Joel Chandler Harris's Br'er Rabbit of the "Uncle Remus" stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror. Zora Neale Hurston wrote of his adventures ("High John de Conquer") in her collection of
The Life and Adventures of Remus the region, culminating in two performances of "Nowy Remus" ("New Remus"). The Life and Adventures of Remus Life and Adventures of Remus - the Kashubian Mirror (Kashubian title Żëce i przigodë Remusa - Zvjercadło kaszubskji) is a novel written in the Kashubian language by Dr. Aleksander Majkowski (1876–1938). The linguist Gerald Green regards "Life and Adventures of Remus" as the Kashubian language's only novel; while theirs is more a scholarly judgement than an objective truth, the preeminence of "Life And Adventures" to Kashubian literature is undeniable. Although Dr. Majkowski was a prolific author and wrote on a wide range of