James Sidbury

Becoming African in America

Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic

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Produktbeschreibung

Becoming African in America reveals how an African identity emerged in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of "African" from a degrading term connoting savage people, to a word that was a source of pride and unity for the diverse victims of the Atlantic slave trade.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780195382945
• ISBN-10: 0195382943
• Artikelnr.: 26153052

Autorenporträt

James Sidbury is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1: Africa and Africans in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley and the
Letters of Ignatius Sancho
* 2: Toward a Transformed Africa: The Second Generation of "African"
Writers
* 3: African Identity and the Movements for 'Return': African
Institutions and Emigration in the 1780s and 90s
* 4: Out of America: Sierra Leone's Settler Society and Its Meanings
for "Africans" in America
* 5: African Identity at the Beginning of the New Century: Politics,
Religion, and Emigrationism
* 6: African Churches and the Struggle for an African Nation: Paul
Cuffe, The African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the American
Colonization Society
* Epilogue The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and Renewed Assertions of
African Identity