The African Link: The African Link: British Attitudes in the Era of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1550-1807

ISBN-13: 9781032316703 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 166 str.

Anthony J. Barker

Opis

The African Link, first published in 1978, analyses a vast array of scholarly, educational, popular and polemical writings from the 17th and 18th centuries to fill a considerable gap in the history of racial attitudes.

Spis treści

Part 1. Public Awareness of the Negro in the Era of the Slave Trade  1. The Historical Background  2. The Makers of the Negro Image  Part 2. Attitudes Before 1780: Sub-Humanity and Inhumanity  3. Edward Long and the Theory of Negro Inferiority  4. The Burden of Slavery  Part 3. Attitudes Before 1780: African Savagery in Theory and Practice  5. Intellectual Perspectives  6. The Cultural Inferiority of West Africa  7. The Sinister Side of West African Life  8. Anarchy and Despotism  Part 4. Racial Attitudes in an Era of Controversy: 1780–1807  9. The Chains of Slavery and the Chain of Being  10. Old and New Images of Africa

O autorze

Anthony J. Barker