Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made ManThis definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world’s most renowned person of African descent. Equiano’s greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. A key document of the early movement to ban the slave trade, as well as the fundamental text in the genre of the African American slave narrative, it includes the earliest known purported firsthand description by an enslaved victim of the horrific Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. Equiano, the African is filled with fresh revelations about this many-sided figure. |
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Contents
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| 17 | |
Chapter Three At Sea | 39 |
Chapter Four Freedom Denied | 71 |
Chapter Five Bearing Witness | 92 |
Chapter Six Freedom of a Sort | 119 |
Chapter Seven Toward the North Pole | 135 |
Chapter Eight Born Again | 161 |
Chapter Ten The Black Poor | 202 |
Chapter Eleven Turning against the Slave Trade | 236 |
Chapter Twelve Making a Life | 270 |
Chapter Thirteen The Art of the Book | 303 |
Chapter Fourteen A SelfMade Man | 330 |
Notes | 369 |
Bibliography | 395 |
Index | 419 |
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| Title | Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man |
| Author | Vincent Carretta |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of Georgia Press, 2022 |
| ISBN | 0820362972, 9780820362977 |
| Length | 440 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / African American & Black Biography & Autobiography / Historical History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775) Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies Social Science / Slavery |
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