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godparent
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godparent
a person who stands sponsor to another at baptism


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In devoting most of the rest of the book to comparing these groups to whites and to each other, King has many fresh things to say about free-colored marria ges and families, manumission practices, entrepreneurship, housing, religiousness, color consciousness, godparenthood, status aspirations, social mobility, and sexual behavior.
Haas has organized the book according to stages in the life cycle, from analyzing decisions to have children, to conception, pregnancy, birth ritual, godparenthood, wet-nursing, early childhood, and, as happened all too often, the death of relatively young children.
They leave a Catholicism reduced to one or two external markers, to godparenthood and the fiesta, and they enter an active, lively, and confident community.
 
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