Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic

Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic

by JamesSidbury (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 09 Apr 2009

ISBN 10: 0195382943
ISBN 13: 9780195382945