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Genre/Form: | Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Sidbury, James. Becoming African in America. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007 (DLC) 2007004017 (OCoLC)81861269 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
James Sidbury |
ISBN: | 9780198043225 0198043228 9780195320107 0195320107 9781435620254 1435620259 9780199789009 0199789002 |
OCLC Number: | 190864123 |
Reproduction Notes: | Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Details: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Contents: | The First "Africans" -- Toward a Transformed Africa -- An African Homeland? -- Out of America -- Becoming African in the English Atlantic -- African Churches and an African Nation -- Becoming American in Liberia and the United States, 1820-1830 -- Epilogue: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and Renewed Assertions of African Identity. |
Responsibility: | James Sidbury. |
Abstract:
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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...a fine and welcome addition to the literature on the history of the African diaspora and the black Atlantic world...the book...will serve as a generative source for further research and inquiry. There can be no greater tribute to a person's scholarship, nor any greater reward. * Michael A. Gomez, African History * Read more...
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- English literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism.
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- United States -- Race relations.
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- African Americans.
- African Americans -- Migrations.
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- Antislavery movements.
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- Race relations.
- Africa.
- United States.