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Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic
Becoming African in America Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic
Author: James Sidbury
The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as "African" but rather as 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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780195320107
ISBN-10: 0195320107
Publication Date: 9/27/2007
Pages: 304
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Book Type: Hardcover
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