by JamesSidbury (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 09 Apr 2009
ISBN 10: 0195382943
ISBN 13: 9780195382945