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 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 245mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 563g
• ISBN-13: 9780195320107
• ISBN-10: 0195320107
• Artikelnr.: 22553789

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
* Ch. 1: The First "Africans"
* Ch. 2: Toward a Transformed Africa
* Ch. 3: An African Homeland?
* Ch. 4: Out of America
* Ch. 5: Becoming African in the English Atlantic
* Ch. 6: African Churches and an African NationCh. 7: Becoming American
in Liberia and in the United States, 1820 - 1830
* Epilogue: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and Renewed Assertions of
African Identity