Race and Respectability in an Early Black Atlantic - Smith, Cassander L. (Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2023)
COVER -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. "NO ROGUE, NO RASCAL, NO THIEF": Respectability and "Adam Negro's Tryal" -- TWO. "THOSE WHO SEEM'D TO RESPECT ME": Phillis Wheatley at the Border of Respectability -- THREE. (SOME) BLACK LIVES MATTER: Olaudah Equiano and the Social Racial Contract -- FOUR. "MY POOR LITTLE ILL-THRIVEN SWARTHY DAUGHTER": Granville Sharp and the Respectability of Deportation to Province of Freedom -- FIVE. "SEND ME OVER ONE WORTHY": Reimagining Respectability in Sierra Leone -- NOTES -- INDEX
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Keywords: 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; 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.; Atlantique, Région de l' -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.; African literature (English); American literature -- Colonial period; Black people in literature; Black people -- Social conditions; English literature; Literature -- Black authors; Middle class in literature; Atlantic Ocean Region; 1600-1799; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History