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Becoming African in America - Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic, 1760-1830 (Hardcover)
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Becoming African in America - Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic, 1760-1830 (Hardcover)
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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
therich and complicated roots of African nationalist thought in the
U.S. and the black Atlantic.
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