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A Postcolonial African American Re-reading of ColossiansIdentity Through the Language of the Enslaver

A Postcolonial African American Re-reading of Colossians: Identity Through the Language of the... [Literature on the culture of New World slave populations, particularly from the seventeenth century, is extremely limited.1 Rickford notes that there is less direct documentation on American slaves than on any other American group.2 Why should this be? This scourge on the conscience of the nation known as a super-power would serve no purpose other than to diminish it; and diminish it, it does. How does one deal with the history of enslaving people, but to try and erase it? Perhaps the strategy was to not document it so that no paper trail could be found.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Postcolonial African American Re-reading of ColossiansIdentity Through the Language of the Enslaver

Part of the Postcolonialism and Religions Book Series
Tinsley, Annie
Springer Journals — Oct 29, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
ISBN
978-1-349-46769-3
Pages
73 –82
DOI
10.1057/9781137326157_8
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Abstract

[Literature on the culture of New World slave populations, particularly from the seventeenth century, is extremely limited.1 Rickford notes that there is less direct documentation on American slaves than on any other American group.2 Why should this be? This scourge on the conscience of the nation known as a super-power would serve no purpose other than to diminish it; and diminish it, it does. How does one deal with the history of enslaving people, but to try and erase it? Perhaps the strategy was to not document it so that no paper trail could be found.]

Published: Oct 29, 2015

Keywords: Slave Trade; African Language; African People; Paper Trail; Black Slave

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