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Becoming African in America - Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic (Paperback)
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Becoming African in America - Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic (Paperback)
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The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as
"African" but rather as members of ethnic groups such as the 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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