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Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America reprint Edition
Author(s): Sterling Stuckey (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication Date: 16 Feb. 1989
- Edition: reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 444 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195056647
- ISBN-13: 9780195056648
Book Description
In this ground-breaking study, Sterling Stuckey, a leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, explains how different African peoples interacted on the plantations of the South to achieve a common culture. He argues that, at the time of emancipation, slaves still remained essentially African in culture, a conclusion with profound implications for theories of black liberation and for the future of race relations in America.
Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey reveals an intrinsic Pan-African impulse that contributed to the formation of the black ethos in slavery. He presents fascinating profiles of such nineteenth-century figures as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass, as well as detailed examinations into the lives and careers of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson in this century.
Drawing evidence from the anthropology and art history of Central and West African cultural traditions and exploring the folklore of the American slave, Stuckey reveals an intrinsic Pan-African impulse that contributed to the formation of the black ethos in slavery. He presents fascinating profiles of such nineteenth-century figures as David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, and Frederick Douglass, as well as detailed examinations into the lives and careers of W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson in this century.
Editorial Reviews
Review
'a rich, provocative, and in many ways seminal interpretation that may force a reconsideration of the neglected depths of African culture in America.' Library Journal 'a spirited nationalist interpretation of Afro-American cultural history. It is an interpretation of considerable originality.' The New Republic 'powerful new book...A book as rich and thoughtful as this inevitably sparks questions.' The Nation 'a valuable contribution to the debate on African survivals and transmutations in American culture ... There is so much in Slave Culture to fascinate the student of America and the African Diaspora that one wishes that it could have been twice its length. Many of its points deserve greater space than the author has been able to give them.' George Shepperson, University of Edinburgh, Slavery and Abolition
About the Author
Sterling Stuckey is Professor of History at Northwestern University. Stuckey is also editor of The Ideological Origins of Black Nationalism.
