Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic by James Sidbury

Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic

James Sidbury

291 pages first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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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, tr...

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