Reconstructing the black image
De la Mothe, Gordon1993
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Refuting the negative perceptions of black people in Western society, this book reviews the images first fostered by purveyors of the West African slave trade of Africans as heathen savages. The author contends that these portrayals helped to delay the abolition of slavery.
Main title:
Reconstructing the black image / Gordon de la Mothe.
Author:
Imprint:
Stoke-on-Trent : Trentham, 1993.
Collation:
x,140p : ill(some col.), facsims,3maps,ports ; 21cm.pbk.ed.x, 140p : ill., (some col), maps (chiefly col), ports., (some col)
Notes:
Formerly CIP.Includes bibliographical references p137-138.
ISBN:
9780948080616 (pbk)0948080612 (pbk)
Dewey class:
704.942704.942 MOT305.8036305.8'96305.896
Local class:
305.896
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
278022