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      Recasting Africanness: Ignatius Sancho and the Question of Identity

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      Date
      2016-12-22
      Author
      Olaleye, Banjo Ebenezer 1992-
      ORCID
      0000-0001-6145-9737
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      The prejudice against blacks, a designation based on the dark color of the skin which includes people from India, Africa and the Caribbean, in eighteenth-century Britain is what I tag Africanness. Africanness describes the supposed inferiority of black races. It was the predominant ideology in eighteenth-century Britain that blacks are immoral and unrefined people who lack mental abilities. In Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, Ignatius Sancho, demonstrates his education, his Christianity, his morality, and many other traits that contradict what most Europeans assumed Negurs to be. Positioning himself as an observing outsider, Sancho reveals and re-presents himself to eighteenth-century British society as a black man who is neither Savage nor any of the other characteristics assumed to apply to his race. In refuting the notion that intelligence is determined by race, upholding the need for self-improvement of every man in every race, and as illustrated through Sancho’s existence as an African man of letters, Sancho’s Letters recasts the prejudices facing eighteenth-century blacks in Britain.
      Degree
      Master of Arts (M.A.)
      Department
      English
      Program
      English
      Supervisor
      Muri, Allison
      Committee
      Harris, Richard; Hynes, Peter
      Copyright Date
      August 2016
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/7643
      Subject
      Africanness, prejudice, eighteenth-century Britain, Abolitionist, slavery
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