TY - BOOK ID - 78340050 TI - Barbaric culture and Black critique PY - 2016 SN - 0813938252 9780813937984 0813937981 9780813938257 9780813937991 081393799X PB - Charlottesville DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Slaves' writings, English KW - Slavery KW - Slavery in literature. KW - English literature KW - Slavery and slaves in literature KW - Slaves in literature KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - English slaves' writings KW - African American authors KW - History and criticism. KW - Political aspects. KW - Religious aspects. KW - History and criticism KW - Stewart, Maria W., KW - Walker, David, KW - Equiano, Olaudah, KW - Cugoano, Ottobah. KW - Slavery in literature KW - Religious aspects KW - Enslaved persons in literature KW - Enslaved persons KW - English enslaved persons' writings KW - Enslaved persons' writings, English UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78340050 AB - In an interdisciplinary study of black intellectual history at the dawn of the nineteenth century, Stefan M. Wheelock shows how black antislavery writers were able to counteract ideologies of white supremacy while fostering a sense of racial community and identity. The major figures he discusses-Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, David Walker, and Maria Stewart-engaged the concepts of democracy, freedom, and equality as these ideas ripened within the context of racial terror and colonial hegemony. Wheelock highlights the ways in which religious and secular versions of collective political destiny both competed and cooperated to forge a vision for a more perfect and just society. By appealing to religious sensibilities and calling for emancipation, these writers addressed slavery and its cultural bearing on the Atlantic in varied, complex, and sometimes contradictory ways during a key period in the development of Western political identity and modernity. ER -