Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black AtlanticOxford University Press, 27 thg 9, 2007 - 304 trang The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "African" but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. 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. In this wide-ranging work, Sidbury first 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. He looks at political activists who worked within the emerging antislavery moment in England and North America in the 1780s and 1790s; he describes the rise of the African church movement in various cities--most notably, the establishment of the African Methodist Episcopal Church as an independent denomination--and the efforts of wealthy sea captain Paul Cuffe to initiate a black-controlled emigration movement that would forge ties between Sierra Leone and blacks in North America; and he examines in detail the efforts of blacks to emigrate to Africa, founding Sierra Leone and Liberia. Elegantly written and astutely reasoned, Becoming African in America weaves together intellectual, social, cultural, religious, and political threads into an important contribution to African American history, one that fundamentally revises our picture of the rich and complicated roots of African nationalist thought in the U.S. and the black Atlantic. |
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... land and reclaim his rightful place as the reforming leader of his people. Within a month of their arrival in Africa, Ira Aldridge was born, but the young family was not destined for happiness in the land of 3 Introduction.
... land and reclaim his rightful place as the reforming leader of his people. Within a month of their arrival in Africa, Ira Aldridge was born, but the young family was not destined for happiness in the land of 3 Introduction.
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... land of the Fullah. Daniel's efforts to spread “Gospel seeds” and to put an end to the barbarism of the slave trade stimulated another civil war in which “the enlightened African was defeated, barely escaping . . . with his life.” He ...
... land of the Fullah. Daniel's efforts to spread “Gospel seeds” and to put an end to the barbarism of the slave trade stimulated another civil war in which “the enlightened African was defeated, barely escaping . . . with his life.” He ...
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... land. It traces their efforts to put into practice the transformative project that Gustavus Vassa had outlined at the conclusion of his Interesting Narrative. In these settlers' struggles with the Sierra Leone Company, which governed ...
... land. It traces their efforts to put into practice the transformative project that Gustavus Vassa had outlined at the conclusion of his Interesting Narrative. In these settlers' struggles with the Sierra Leone Company, which governed ...
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... land, it pushed him to elaborate a clearer vision of racial uplift and also permitted him to intensify his organizational efforts among black Americans. Chapter 6 explores the way that Cuffe reached out to the leaders of the African ...
... land, it pushed him to elaborate a clearer vision of racial uplift and also permitted him to intensify his organizational efforts among black Americans. Chapter 6 explores the way that Cuffe reached out to the leaders of the African ...
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... land of their forebears and settling in an American colony in West Africa. Cuffe was favorably disposed toward the ACS's embryonic program and its request for his support, but he died shortly after it was formed. His allies in various ...
... land of their forebears and settling in an American colony in West Africa. Cuffe was favorably disposed toward the ACS's embryonic program and its request for his support, but he died shortly after it was formed. His allies in various ...
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2 Toward a Transformed Africa | 39 |
3 An African Homeland? | 67 |
4 Out of America | 91 |
5 Becoming African in the English Atlantic | 131 |
6 African Churches and an African Nation | 157 |
7 Becoming American in Liberia and in the United States 18201830 | 181 |
Epilogue | 203 |
Notes | 211 |
Bibliography | 255 |
Index | 277 |
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