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Race and respectability in an early Black Atlantic / Cassander L. Smith.

"Cassander L. Smith's Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic examines the means through which people of African descent embodied tenets of respectability as a coping strategy to navigate enslavement and racial oppression in the early Black Atlantic world. The term "respect...

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Main Author: Smith, Cassander L., 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2024]
Subjects:
Literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Black people in literature.
Middle class in literature.
American literature > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
African literature (English) > History and criticism.
Black people > Atlantic Ocean Region > Social conditions > 18th century.
Black people > Cultural assimilation > Atlantic Ocean Region.
Atlantic Ocean Region > History > 18th century.
Littérature > Auteurs noirs > Histoire et critique.
Personnes noires dans la littérature.
Littérature américaine > ca 1600-1775 (Période coloniale) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature africaine (anglaise) > Histoire et critique.
Personnes noires > Atlantique, Région de l' > Conditions sociales > 18e siècle.
Personnes noires > Acculturation > Atlantique, Région de l'.
Atlantique, Région de l' > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Table of Contents:
  • "No rogue, no rascal, no thief" : respectability and "Adam Negro's tryal"
  • "Those who seem'd to respect me" : Phillis Wheatley at the border of respectability
  • (Some) Black Lives Matter : Olaudah Equiano and the social racial contract
  • "My poor little ill-thriven swarthy daughter" : Granville Sharp and the respectability of deportation to province of freedom
  • "Send me over one worthy" : reimagining respectability in Sierra Leone.

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