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African Americans and the Classics - Antiquity, Abolition and Activism (Paperback, NIP)
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African Americans and the Classics - Antiquity, Abolition and Activism (Paperback, NIP)
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A new wave of research in black classicism has emerged in the 21st
century that explores the role played by the classics in the larger
cultural traditions of black America, Africa and the Caribbean.
Addressing a gap in this scholarship, Margaret Malamud investigates
why and how advocates for abolition and black civil rights (both
black and white) deployed their knowledge of classical literature
and history in their struggle for black liberty and equality in the
United States. African Americans boldly staked their own claims to
the classical world: they deployed texts, ideas and images of
ancient Greece, Rome and Egypt in order to establish their
authority in debates about slavery, race, politics and education. A
central argument of this book is that knowledge and deployment of
Classics was a powerful weapon and tool for resistance-as
improbable as that might seem now-when wielded by black and white
activists committed to the abolition of slavery and the end of the
social and economic oppression of free blacks. The book
significantly expands our understanding of both black history and
classical reception in the United States.
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