Becoming African in America - Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic - Paperback - 2009

"Becoming African in America 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.
Year of publication: 2009
Pagination: 304 pages, 13 halftones, 3 line illustrations
Format: Paperback"