tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post7779839611925758053..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: Excerpt From Kwasi Konodu's Book "The Akan Diaspora In The Americas" (with a focus on Akan day names in Suriname, South America)Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-56762959095879263482016-02-24T20:01:06.287-05:002016-02-24T20:01:06.287-05:00In the comment section of the pancocojams post htt...In the comment section of the pancocojams post <a href="http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-survival-of-several-akan-day-names.html" rel="nofollow">http://pancocojams.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-survival-of-several-akan-day-names.html</a> "Black names in South Carolina 18th and 19th centuries", I shared that I had met an African American woman whose last name was "Cromantie". In those comments I speculated about whether that name could have come from the term "Coromantee", which came to be used for enslaved Africans who came to the Americas or the Caribbean on slave ships that sailed from the Ghanaian costal settlement of Kromantse. <br /><br />In that same comment thread I erroneously noted that some African American professional football players had the last name "Cromantie". Actually, the last name of those football players (Marcus and Antonio, and others) is "Cromartie". "Cromartie" is a form of the Scottish last name "Cromarty", and isn't at all related to the anglized form of "Kromantse".<br /><br />I found some online examples of the last name "Cromantie" but those persons were almost certainly White (for example "Dr. H. R. Cromantie", whose name was listed in minutes of a Presbyterian church meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1908. A 1921 Davidson College (North Carolina) student publication "Quips And Cranks" included the last name "Cromantie" - "A. D. Cromantie, Vidalia, Ga.”. That student was undoubtedly a White male.<a href="https://archive.org/stream/quipscranks1921davi/quipscranks1921davi_djvu.txt" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/stream/quipscranks1921davi/quipscranks1921davi_djvu.txt</a>. <br /><br />It's possible that those names could have been misspelling of the name "Cromartie". That was the case with an article about (White American) Michael Cromartie, Vice President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. (who recently endorsed Marco Rubio for US President.)<br /><br />The names "Cromartie" and "Cromarty" are listed in the US Census page on American last names, but the name "Cromantie" isn't listed. <a href="http://names.mongabay.com/data/surnames_Cr.htm" rel="nofollow">http://names.mongabay.com/data/surnames_Cr.htm</a><br /><br />I'm not sure what that means. <br />Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.com