Dismantling Black Manhood: An Historical and Literary Analysis of the Legacy of Slavery

ISBN-13: 9780815328575 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 198 str.

Daniel P. Black

Opis

Drawing on documents between 1794 and 1863, shows how the forms and symbols of manhood in pre-colonial West Africa were destroyed by slavery, and how male slaves strove to redefine what it meant to be an adult male in the absence of the communal discussion. Captivity is shown to have erased not only

Spis treści

Introduction, The Concept of Manhood in Pre-Colonial West Africa, The Impact of the Long March and the Middle Passage on the West African Concept of Manhood, Plantation Existence and the West African Concept of Manhood. The Concept of Manhood and the Enslaved African American Male, The Concept of Manhood and the Free Black, Male of the 19th Century, Recommendations for Further Study

O autorze

Graham Hodges Colgate University