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Zusatztext An outstanding, detailed survey emerges which blendsrich source writings with a history of ethnic identity development. Informationen zum Autor James Sidbury is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Ploughshares Into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriel's Virginia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: Africa and Africans in the Poetry of Phillis Wheatley and the Letters of Ignatius Sancho 2: Toward a Transformed Africa: The Second Generation of "African" Writers 3: African Identity and the Movements for 'Return': African Institutions and Emigration in the 1780s and 90s 4: Out of America: Sierra Leone's Settler Society and Its Meanings for "Africans" in America 5: African Identity at the Beginning of the New Century: Politics, Religion, and Emigrationism 6: African Churches and the Struggle for an African Nation: Paul Cuffe, The African Methodist Episcopal Church, and the American Colonization Society Epilogue The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and Renewed Assertions of African Identity
