Becoming African in America
James Sidbury · 2007
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"In Becoming African in America, James Sidbury 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." "Sidbury examines the work of black writers - such as Ignatius Sancho in England and Phillis Wheatley in America - who created a narrative of African identity that took its meaning from the diaspora, a narrative that began with enslavement and the experience of the Middle Passage, allowing people of various ethnic backgrounds to become "African" by virtue of sharing the oppression of slavery."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Editions
- 7
- Pages
- 291
- ISBN
- 9780195382945
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