Political Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage

Set on a slave ship in 1830, Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage opposes the political model of Captain Ebenezer Falcon, who incarnates the conquering spirit and ruthless mercantile culture of the United States, to the political model of the Allmuseri, an African tribe of which forty members are shackl...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:ffb3010e0a0141959146f06b719de19b2021-12-02T10:15:10ZPolitical Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage1765-276610.4000/transatlantica.7400https://doaj.org/article/ffb3010e0a0141959146f06b719de19b2015-11-01T00:00:00Zhttp://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7400https://doaj.org/toc/1765-2766Set on a slave ship in 1830, Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage opposes the political model of Captain Ebenezer Falcon, who incarnates the conquering spirit and ruthless mercantile culture of the United States, to the political model of the Allmuseri, an African tribe of which forty members are shackled in the hold. Presented as pacifist and egalitarian, the Allmuseri will prove as bellicose and self-serving as their oppressors once in control of the ship. This essay demonstrates that both political models are in fact similar in nature as they have Utopian foundations whose ideals their proponents could never live up to and yet still claim to live for.Raphaël LambertAssociation Française d'Etudes Américainesarticletransatlantic slave trademanifest destinyPuritanismexceptionalismutopiaheterotopiaHistory AmericaE-FAmericaE11-143ENFRTransatlantica : Revue d'Études Américaines, Vol 1 (2015)
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manifest destiny
Puritanism
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heterotopia
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manifest destiny
Puritanism
exceptionalism
utopia
heterotopia
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Raphaël Lambert
Political Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage
description Set on a slave ship in 1830, Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage opposes the political model of Captain Ebenezer Falcon, who incarnates the conquering spirit and ruthless mercantile culture of the United States, to the political model of the Allmuseri, an African tribe of which forty members are shackled in the hold. Presented as pacifist and egalitarian, the Allmuseri will prove as bellicose and self-serving as their oppressors once in control of the ship. This essay demonstrates that both political models are in fact similar in nature as they have Utopian foundations whose ideals their proponents could never live up to and yet still claim to live for.
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title Political Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage
title_short Political Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage
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