Race and respectability in an early Black Atlantic /

"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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Bibliographic Details
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.