James Sidbury
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 699522 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James Sidbury |
| NOMBRES | James |
| APELLIDO | Sidbury |
| FIRMA | SIDBURY J |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Different Perspectives on the Haitian Revolution
The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions
Volume I offers an introduction to the Enlightenment, which served as the shared background for virtually all revolutionary turmoil, and the American Revolution, which inaugurated the Age of Revolutions. Beginning with a thorough introduction, the volume covers international rivalry, the importance of slavery, and the reformist mind-set that prevailed on the eve of the revolutionary era. It addresses the traditional argument on whether the Enligh…
Blacks in the British Colonies
Blacks living in North America fought on both sides of the American Revolutionary War, though Loyalism proved very appealing to enslaved Blacks who found themselves in a position to choose sides freely. The American Revolution brought abolition to northern states in the new United States, but strengthened slavery in the southern states. The years of the American Revolution brought great material hardship to enslaved people in the British West Ind…
In a Sea of Empires
Slavery and Empire-Making
Slavery and Empire-Making:Vincent Brown's Tacky's Revolt Antoinette Burton, Kathleen Wilson, Matthew J. Smith, Daniel Domingues da Silva, James Sidbury, and Vincent Brown Introduction to the Book Forum Antoinette Burton University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Histories of slavery tend to be unevenly distributed in studies of anglophone empire. Imperialism is typically an explanatory force in histories of enslavement: acknowledged as a conditiona…
Sharon Block, Colonial Complexions
Biography and the Black Atlantic, edited by Lisa A. Lindsay & John Wood Sweet
Resistance to Slavery
Alan Taylor. The Internal Enemy
The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World
On July 27, 1816, a joint United States Army and Navy expedition attacked a community of escaped slaves living in and around a British-built fort at Prospect Bluff near the mouth of the Apalachicola River (roughly 100 miles east of Pensacola). Most histories of colonial Florida mention the so-called “Negro Fort,” but until now there has been no in-depth account of the rise and dispersal of the community surrounding it. Nathaniel Millett tells the…
The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade
Copyright © 2013 University of Pennsylvania Press. All rights reserved. J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur is one of the key delineators of the American national character, a man whose Letters from an American Farmer has a canonical status in early American literature. He is primarily known for his bucolic depiction of rural Pennsylvania, as the originator of the notion of America as a mostly harmonious melting pot of different ethnicities and reli…
If We Think Globally, Should We Write Local, National, or Imperial History
John CRAIG Hammond and MATTHEW Mason, editors. Contesting Slavery
Mapping Ethnogenesis in the Early Modern Atlantic
On the Genesis of Destruction, and Other Missing Subjects
Resistance to Slavery
Prior to 1780, slavery existed in all European settler societies in the Americas. For many years the historiography of American slavery was dominated by the study of those portions of Anglophone America that became the United States and by the study of Brazil, but during recent decades an explosion of scholarship has both broadened and deepened knowledge of slavery throughout the hemisphere. It has become clear that slavery was a remarkably flexi…
Joining Places
From Igbo Israeli To African Christian
The Interesting Narrative explains Olaudah Equiano's journey from his ethnic past, a past he explicitly equated with the Old Testament, to his African Christian present. This chapter tells the story of Equiano's metaphorical passage from an Igbo Israeli of the Old Testament to an African Christian of the New, a passage from freedom to slavery to a renewed and greater freedom rooted in religious awakening. This had fashioned an identity, which he …
African Churches and an African Nation
This chapter presents the story of the first expedition sent to Africa by the American Colonization Society (ACS) and the efforts of two of Paul Cuffe's close friends and supporters — John Kizell, a Nova Scotian leader of the Friendly Society that Cuffe had helped to found in Freetown, and Daniel Coker, one of the founders of the AME and Cuffe's point man in Baltimore — to take control of the fledgling colony away from the white officials sent ou…
The First “Africans”
This chapter shows how Wheatley and Sancho, having been labeled “African” writers, accepted that label and subtly altered what it meant to be “African” by what they wrote. Neither Africa nor African identity plays a central role in their texts, but the identity is present and acknowledged. Both were aware of ethnic diversity on the continent and understood that it undercut any notion of an indigenous “African” identity. Both responded by creating…
An African Homeland?
This chapter traces the rise of the African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia, one of the early churches to describe itself as “African”, and the progenitor of black Baptist churches in Canada, Sierra Leone, and much of the British Caribbean. The chapter then considers two institutions founded by black New Englanders at roughly the same time — African Freemasonry and the African Union Societies of Newport and Providence, Rhode Island — and trac…
Out of America
This chapter follows the story of the Loyalists — who came to call themselves “Nova Scotians” — in their exodus to an African promised land. It traces their efforts to put into practice the transformative project that Gustavus Vassa had outlined at the conclusion of his Interesting Narrative. In these settlers' struggles with the Sierra Leone Company, which governed the colony, and their efforts to forge relationships with the Koya Temne people w…
Epilogue
The epilogue looks ahead to the reemergence of black discussions of African identity and black emigrationism during the 1850s. It examines the efforts of Martin R. Delany, sometimes called the “father of African nationalism”, to encourage black emigration from the United States during the 1850s, and to the sense of African identity that he articulated while advocating emigration. The epilogue suggests the persistence of many ideas initially offer…
Becoming African in the English Atlantic
This chapter focuses on the emergence of the African church movement in various cities along the eastern seaboard — especially Baltimore and Philadelphia — and the efforts of the sea captain, Paul Cuffe, to initiate a black-controlled emigration movement that he hoped would build long-lasting ties between Sierra Leone and blacks in North America, helping to create an “African” people and a diasporic “African” nation.
Becoming American in Liberia and in the United States, 1820–1830
This chapter traces the demise in black discourse on African identity through the 1820s. As black American antislavery activists became increasingly convinced that the ACS served slaveholders' interests and that asserting an “African” identity played into the Society's efforts to portray Africa as the natural home for black Americans, fewer and fewer blacks referred to themselves as Africans. “Colored” institutions began to supplant “African” one…
Mapping Ethnogenesis in the Early Modern Atlantic
Becoming African in America
The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as “African” but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. This book reveals how an African identity emerged in the late 18th-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of “African” from a degrading term connoting savage people, to a word that was a source of pride and unity for the diverse victims of the Atlantic slave trade. The book first examines the work of black writers — such as Ign…
Saint Domingue in Virginia
Plausible Stories and Varnished Truths
ICHAEL P. Johnson's essay can be read as a powerful indictment of than specific books that he set out to review or even of broad scope of scholarship on Denmark Vesey Conspiracy.1 He painstakingly reconstructs history of sources that tell all that we know about Vesey while asserting that most historians who have written about Vesey have eschewed such a reconstruction in favor of more convenient printed (p. 920). This raises important questions ab…
Ploughshares into Swords
From Calabar to Carter's Grove
Strangers within the Realm
Journal Article Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire. Ed. by Bernard Bailyn and Philip D. Morgan. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991. xii + 456 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-1952-2; paper, $14.95, ISBN 0-8078-4311-3.) Get access Strangers within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire. Ed. by Bailyn Bernard Morgan Philip D. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1…
Gabriel's Rebellion
Journal Article Gabriel's Rebellion: The Virginia Slave Conspiracies of 1800 and 1802. By Douglas R. Egerton. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. xviii, 262 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-8078-2113-6. Paper, $13.95, ISBN 0-8078-4422-5.) Get access James Sidbury James Sidbury University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, De…
Saint Domingue in Virginia
Ploughshares into Swords
From Calabar to Carter's Grove
Ploughshares into Swords
During the summer of 1800, slaves in and around Richmond conspired to overthrow their masters and abolish slavery. This book uses Gabriel's Conspiracy, and the evidence produced during the repression of the revolt, to expose the processes through which Virginians of African descent built an oppositional culture. Sidbury portrays the rich cultures of eighteenth-century black Virginians, and the multiple, and sometimes conflicting, senses of identi…
Designs against Charleston
Ploughshares into Swords
Journal Article Ploughshares into Swords: Race, Rebellion, and Identity in Gabriels Virginia, 1730–1810. By James Sidbury. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. x, 292 pp. Cloth, $54.95, ISBN 0-521-58454-X. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-521-59860-5.) Get access Daniel C. Littlefield Daniel C. Littlefield University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, V…
Ploughshares into Swords
David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
Plausible Stories and Varnished Truths
ICHAEL P. Johnson's essay can be read as a powerful indictment of than specific books that he set out to review or even of broad scope of scholarship on Denmark Vesey Conspiracy.1 He painstakingly reconstructs history of sources that tell all that we know about Vesey while asserting that most historians who have written about Vesey have eschewed such a reconstruction in favor of more convenient printed (p. 920). This raises important questions ab…
Subject Matter
Toussaint's Clause
In its formative years, America, birthplace of a revolution, wrestled with a volatile dilemma. John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and many other founding fathers clashed. What was to be the new republic's strategy toward a revolution roiling just off its shores? From 1790 to 1810, the disagreement reverberated far beyond Caribbean waters and American coastal ports. War between France and Britain, the great powers of the time, raged…
African Churches and an African Nation
This chapter presents the story of the first expedition sent to Africa by the American Colonization Society (ACS) and the efforts of two of Paul Cuffe's close friends and supporters — John Kizell, a Nova Scotian leader of the Friendly Society that Cuffe had helped to found in Freetown, and Daniel Coker, one of the founders of the AME and Cuffe's point man in Baltimore — to take control of the fledgling colony away from the white officials sent ou…
The First “Africans”
This chapter shows how Wheatley and Sancho, having been labeled “African” writers, accepted that label and subtly altered what it meant to be “African” by what they wrote. Neither Africa nor African identity plays a central role in their texts, but the identity is present and acknowledged. Both were aware of ethnic diversity on the continent and understood that it undercut any notion of an indigenous “African” identity. Both responded by creating…
An African Homeland?
This chapter traces the rise of the African Baptist Church of Savannah, Georgia, one of the early churches to describe itself as “African”, and the progenitor of black Baptist churches in Canada, Sierra Leone, and much of the British Caribbean. The chapter then considers two institutions founded by black New Englanders at roughly the same time — African Freemasonry and the African Union Societies of Newport and Providence, Rhode Island — and trac…
Out of America
This chapter follows the story of the Loyalists — who came to call themselves “Nova Scotians” — in their exodus to an African promised land. It traces their efforts to put into practice the transformative project that Gustavus Vassa had outlined at the conclusion of his Interesting Narrative. In these settlers' struggles with the Sierra Leone Company, which governed the colony, and their efforts to forge relationships with the Koya Temne people w…
Epilogue
The epilogue looks ahead to the reemergence of black discussions of African identity and black emigrationism during the 1850s. It examines the efforts of Martin R. Delany, sometimes called the “father of African nationalism”, to encourage black emigration from the United States during the 1850s, and to the sense of African identity that he articulated while advocating emigration. The epilogue suggests the persistence of many ideas initially offer…
Becoming African in the English Atlantic
This chapter focuses on the emergence of the African church movement in various cities along the eastern seaboard — especially Baltimore and Philadelphia — and the efforts of the sea captain, Paul Cuffe, to initiate a black-controlled emigration movement that he hoped would build long-lasting ties between Sierra Leone and blacks in North America, helping to create an “African” people and a diasporic “African” nation.
Becoming American in Liberia and in the United States, 1820–1830
This chapter traces the demise in black discourse on African identity through the 1820s. As black American antislavery activists became increasingly convinced that the ACS served slaveholders' interests and that asserting an “African” identity played into the Society's efforts to portray Africa as the natural home for black Americans, fewer and fewer blacks referred to themselves as Africans. “Colored” institutions began to supplant “African” one…
Toward a Transformed Africa
This chapter traces the black discourse on African identity that Wheatley and Sancho unknowingly initiated into the first generation of slave autobiographers. Most of the men who wrote these narratives had lived in African villages or in slave communities in the plantation regions of America, experiences foreign to both Wheatley and Sancho. Perhaps as a result, when they asserted African identities in their narratives, they confronted ethnic divi…
Globalization, Creolization, and the Not-So-Peculiar Institution
IT HAS BECOME A CLICHE TO PROCLAIM THE NEED TO INTERNATIONALIZE the study of the United States. Well-funded conferences, special issues of prestigious journals, and countless panels at professional meetings have been devoted to discussions of how to overcome the self-perceived provincialism of American historians. I have joined in the parade of historians who have participated in these events. Like most academic fashions, this one is a response, …
Becoming African in America
The first slaves imported to America did not see themselves as “African” but rather as Temne, Igbo, or Yoruban. This book reveals how an African identity emerged in the late 18th-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of “African” from a degrading term connoting savage people, to a word that was a source of pride and unity for the diverse victims of the Atlantic slave trade. The book first examines the work of black writers — such as Ign…
From Igbo Israeli To African Christian
The Interesting Narrative explains Olaudah Equiano's journey from his ethnic past, a past he explicitly equated with the Old Testament, to his African Christian present. This chapter tells the story of Equiano's metaphorical passage from an Igbo Israeli of the Old Testament to an African Christian of the New, a passage from freedom to slavery to a renewed and greater freedom rooted in religious awakening. This had fashioned an identity, which he …
Joining Places
History (34 obras) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (23 obras) · Political science (23 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Art (16 obras) · History (16 obras) · Law (16 obras) · Gender Studies (13 obras) · Race, History, and American Society (12 obras) · Geography (10 obras)