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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... America 22 23 24 25 26 P 5 4 3 2 1 The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book as follows: Carretta, Vincent. Equiano, the African : biography of a self-made man / Vincent Carretta. xxiv, 436 p. : ill., maps ...
... America 22 23 24 25 26 P 5 4 3 2 1 The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition of this book as follows: Carretta, Vincent. Equiano, the African : biography of a self-made man / Vincent Carretta. xxiv, 436 p. : ill., maps ...
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... Eighteenth - Century Mediterranean / 56-57 Eighteenth - Century London / 78–79 Eighteenth - Century Atlantic America / 107 Phipps's Expedition to the Arctic / 156–57 Preface No one has a greater claim to being called List of Illustrations.
... Eighteenth - Century Mediterranean / 56-57 Eighteenth - Century London / 78–79 Eighteenth - Century Atlantic America / 107 Phipps's Expedition to the Arctic / 156–57 Preface No one has a greater claim to being called List of Illustrations.
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... America he helped purchase and supervised slaves on a plantation . Equiano set off on voyages of commerce and adventure to North America , the Mediterranean , the West Indies , and the North Pole . Equiano was now a man of the Atlantic ...
... America he helped purchase and supervised slaves on a plantation . Equiano set off on voyages of commerce and adventure to North America , the Mediterranean , the West Indies , and the North Pole . Equiano was now a man of the Atlantic ...
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... America . Indeed , it is difficult to think of any historical account of the Middle Passage that does not quote his eyewitness description of its horrors as primary evidence . Interest in Equiano has not been restricted to academia . He ...
... America . Indeed , it is difficult to think of any historical account of the Middle Passage that does not quote his eyewitness description of its horrors as primary evidence . Interest in Equiano has not been restricted to academia . He ...
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... America reasonably nice places to visit , but he never revealed any interest in voluntarily living there . By Equiano's account , the amount of time he spent in North America during his life could be measured in months , not years ...
... America reasonably nice places to visit , but he never revealed any interest in voluntarily living there . By Equiano's account , the amount of time he spent in North America during his life could be measured in months , not years ...
Contents
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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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