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Geneva Club English 166 Final Project Main Menu “Dishonourable Society of Black Masons”: Learning Something from Everyday Slave Resistance in Colonial New York Geneva Club Music Video Pre-Production Geneva Club

"From the Drink Came a Dream" Rap

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Lyrics:
Freemason. Geneva. Freemason. Geneva. Freemason. Geneva. Etc.

January 17 ’38, Cuffee, Caesar, Prince out walking late,
When they heard a commotion,
looked in the window, seen the masters drinking and smoking,
they was drinking on some gin
but I thought in they Bible they said that’s a sin
but now that we know it’s okay
we might as well go get us some mane,
and let’s steal us some clothes
and dress up like the white folks
yeah, and dress up like the white folks

Freemason. Geneva. Freemason. Geneva. Freemason. Geneva. Etc.

So they needed a king, Caesar drank the most so they named him supreme
From the drink came a dream, from the plot to the scheme,
New government with no Europeans,
It’s gonna be different this time,
Hand on the Bible, protect what’s mine
Kill and have them crying

Hand on the Bible, put your hand on the Bible (Swear) x 4

Saturday, January 28, Caesar, Prince and Cuffee were arrested. They confessed to robbing Baker’s tavern. No trial was necessary. The following Thursday the men of the Geneva Club were paraded through the city on a cart, stripped to the waist, and whipped at every street corner. As Cuffee was being carried to the whipping post, he cried: “Make way for a Free mason”

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Geneva Club Mix This original track recorded by Kashan Stroughtner and her dad allows for a contemporary, creative interpretation of the events that occurred leading up to the 1741 New York fires. It explores the everyday acts of resistance of three conspirators specifically, Caeser, Cuffee and Prince in their mimicry of white culture and freemasonry during this time. Ultimately, as is the overall theme of our project, this work aims snatch this narrative out of the hands of white authority, and back into those whose stories the primary motivators of action throughout the conspiracy.