AFAS 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Phillis Wheatley, Ahmad Baba Al Massufi, Jupiter Hammon

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Africana Studies Main
• Course: AFAS 222
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

African tongue promoted influence of modern cultural language. African peoples are in no way invaders from another continent. The origin and growth of afro-american literature p. 218. Africans familiar with art and culture before their contact with the western world. Black race didn t come into america culturally empty handed. University of sankore was the educational capital of western sudan. Ahmed baba one of the greatest scholars of the 16th century. Africans first came to the new world as explorers. Art and literature of black people had an economic origin traced to economic institution of slavery. Gustavas vassa wrote on of the easiest slave narratives. Jupiter hammon - first poem published by an american black. Phillis wheatley influenced by religious forces of wesley-whitefield revival. Her poems reflected conventions of the boston puritans with whom she lived. Literature of petition written by free black men in the north, petitioners for justice.