Both Booker T.Washington and W.E.B.Du Bois are the prominent thinkers who provide inspirations for African Americans on their way to strive for political,economic and social emancipations.Their ideas arise from the sp...Both Booker T.Washington and W.E.B.Du Bois are the prominent thinkers who provide inspirations for African Americans on their way to strive for political,economic and social emancipations.Their ideas arise from the specific determinants of the historical period where they respectively live.People are often more aware of and interested in the differences and even conflicts of their propositions.In essence,thinking of the latter is a logic continuity of that of the former.Their ideas share a logic commonality,which is that they are conservative in the base,and reformist in the implementing steps.展开更多
Charles Ball's 1836 slave narrative is not only an example of an autobiographical narrative of escape from enslavement,it includes narratives of Africans who have been captured and brought to North America.Ball...Charles Ball's 1836 slave narrative is not only an example of an autobiographical narrative of escape from enslavement,it includes narratives of Africans who have been captured and brought to North America.Ball's narrative records the heterogeneity of Africans arriving-from Muslim West Africans to those from the Congo,a ubiquitous term given more specificity in his narrative.Defining a distinction between an arrivant and someone,like himself,who may be a second generation enslaved person is Ball's purpose,suggesting he belongs to a new culture.Ball’s descriptions parallel Zora Neale Hurston’s description of Kossola,a record of the last African brought to North America as an enslaved person.Ball's role recording his encounters parallels that of Hurston as ethnographer and W.E.B.DuBois as a social historian.展开更多
文摘Both Booker T.Washington and W.E.B.Du Bois are the prominent thinkers who provide inspirations for African Americans on their way to strive for political,economic and social emancipations.Their ideas arise from the specific determinants of the historical period where they respectively live.People are often more aware of and interested in the differences and even conflicts of their propositions.In essence,thinking of the latter is a logic continuity of that of the former.Their ideas share a logic commonality,which is that they are conservative in the base,and reformist in the implementing steps.
文摘Charles Ball's 1836 slave narrative is not only an example of an autobiographical narrative of escape from enslavement,it includes narratives of Africans who have been captured and brought to North America.Ball's narrative records the heterogeneity of Africans arriving-from Muslim West Africans to those from the Congo,a ubiquitous term given more specificity in his narrative.Defining a distinction between an arrivant and someone,like himself,who may be a second generation enslaved person is Ball's purpose,suggesting he belongs to a new culture.Ball’s descriptions parallel Zora Neale Hurston’s description of Kossola,a record of the last African brought to North America as an enslaved person.Ball's role recording his encounters parallels that of Hurston as ethnographer and W.E.B.DuBois as a social historian.
