Becoming African in America

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"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." "Sidbury 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."--Jacket.

subjects: African americans, history, to 1863,  African americans, race identity,  Black nationalism,  American literature, african american authors, history and criticism,  English literature, history and criticism,  Antislavery movements,  United states, emigration and immigration,  Africa, emigration and immigration,  United states, race relations,  African Americans,  History,  Race identity,  American literature,  African American authors,  History and criticism,  English literature,  Black authors,  Migrations,  Emigration and immigration,  Race relations,  Abolitionismus,  Ethnische Identita t,  Nationalbewusstsein,  Ethnische Identität,  Ethnische Identität,  African americans, history

Places: United States,  Africa,  Schwarze,  Afrikaner,  Amerika

Times: To 1863,  18th century