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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... Britain—Biography. 3. Slaves—United States—Biography. I. Title HT869.E6 C37 2005 306.3'62'092—dc22 2005011898 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-6298-4 Frontispiece: Detail of the frontispiece from the first edition of volume 1 of Olaudah ...
... Britain—Biography. 3. Slaves—United States—Biography. I. Title HT869.E6 C37 2005 306.3'62'092—dc22 2005011898 Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-6298-4 Frontispiece: Detail of the frontispiece from the first edition of volume 1 of Olaudah ...
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... Britain / 42 The 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 ...
... Britain / 42 The 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 ...
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... Britain , Turkey , and Africa . Ultimately , he chose Britain , in part because Africa was denied him , despite his several attempts to get there . Truly a " citizen of the world " ( 337 ) , ' as he once called himself , Equiano was the ...
... Britain , Turkey , and Africa . Ultimately , he chose Britain , in part because Africa was denied him , despite his several attempts to get there . Truly a " citizen of the world " ( 337 ) , ' as he once called himself , Equiano was the ...
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... Britain . Like Franklin , Equiano offered his own life as a model for others to follow . Equiano's personal conversions and transformations from enslaved to free , pagan to Christian , and proslavery to abolitionist anticipated the ...
... Britain . Like Franklin , Equiano offered his own life as a model for others to follow . Equiano's personal conversions and transformations from enslaved to free , pagan to Christian , and proslavery to abolitionist anticipated the ...
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... Britain . His genius lay in his ability to create and market a voice that for over two centuries has spoken for millions of his fellow diasporan Africans . Equiano's voice is so distinctive that wherever possible in the following pages ...
... Britain . His genius lay in his ability to create and market a voice that for over two centuries has spoken for millions of his fellow diasporan Africans . Equiano's voice is so distinctive that wherever possible in the following pages ...
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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