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Becoming African in America : race and nation in the early Black Atlantic

James Sidbury reveals how African identity emerged in the late 18th 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
eBook, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations, maps
9780198043225, 9780195320107, 9781435620254, 9780199789009, 9781281165213, 0198043228, 0195320107, 1435620259, 0199789002, 1281165212
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The First "Africans"
Toward a Transformed Africa
An African Homeland?
Out of America
Becoming African in the English Atlantic
African Churches and an African Nation
Becoming American in Liberia and the United States, 1820-1830
Epilogue: The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and Renewed Assertions of African Identity
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010