Title Barbaric culture and Black critique : Black antislavery writers, religion, and the slaveholding Atlantic / Stefan M. Wheelock

Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Preface -- Introduction -- Ottobah Cugoano, liberty, and modern Atlantic barbarism -- Interesting narratives, civility, and the problem of freedom -- David Walker, false grammars, and American racial inheritance -- Maria Stewart and the paradoxes of early national virtue -- Conclusion Summary "In an interdisciplinary approach to black antislavery literatures at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan Wheelock shows how the political character of freedom and a religious sensibility allowed Black antislavery writers to countermand ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he selects--Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, and Maria Stewart--were principally concerned with ending racial slavery and the slave trade, but they employed antislavery rhetoric at a time when the institution of slavery was preparing progressive Western politics to enter a new phase of imperial and racial domination. This contradictory circumstance, Wheelock argues, poses a significant challenge for understanding the development of this watershed moment in Western political identity. The author looks at the ways in which, during this period, religious and secular versions of collective political destiny both competed and cooperated to forge a vision for a more perfect and just society. What especially captures his interest is how the writers of the African Atlantic deployed religious sensibilities and the call for emancipation as a way of characterizing the liberal foundations of Atlantic political modernity. Although neither "modernity" nor "progress" is a term these writers used, Wheelock contends that a concern with modernity and its liberal character is implicit in their critiques and/or portrayals of the advanced political structures that gave rise to racial enslavement in the first place"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Cugoano, Ottobah Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797 Walker, David, 1785-1830. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90613451 Stewart, Maria W., 1803-1879. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86066011 Stewart, Maria W., 1803-1879 Walker, David, 1785-1830 Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797 Cugoano, Ottobah Cugoano, Ottobah. fast (OCoLC)fst00233612 Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797. fast (OCoLC)fst01817489 Stewart, Maria W., 1803-1879. fast (OCoLC)fst00192043 Walker, David, 1785-1830. fast (OCoLC)fst00264944 Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism Slavery in literature. Slavery -- Religious aspects. Slavery -- Political aspects Enslaved persons' writings, English -- History and criticism American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African American. American literature. American literature -- African American authors. English literature. Slavery in literature. Slavery -- Political aspects. Slavery -- Religious aspects. Slaves' writings, English. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813937984 0813937981 9780813938257 0813938252

Other Titles Black antislavery writers, religion, and the slaveholding Atlantic

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