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Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic, 1760-1830
Sidbury, James (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin)
Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic, 1760-1830
Sidbury, James (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin)
Becoming African in America reveals how 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.
302 pages, 13 halftones, 3 maps
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | October 4, 2007 |
ISBN13 | 9780195320107 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 304 |
Dimensions | 239 × 169 × 23 mm · 567 g |