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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... England years earlier than he says . He was clearly willing to manipulate at least some of the details of his life . Problematic as such evidence may be , any would - be biographer must now take it into account . Walvin observes that ...
... England years earlier than he says . He was clearly willing to manipulate at least some of the details of his life . Problematic as such evidence may be , any would - be biographer must now take it into account . Walvin observes that ...
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... England a family of four could live modestly on £ 40 sterling a year , and a gentleman could support his standard of living on £ 300 sterling a year . A maid might be paid ( in addition to room , board , cast - off clothes , and tips ) ...
... England a family of four could live modestly on £ 40 sterling a year , and a gentleman could support his standard of living on £ 300 sterling a year . A maid might be paid ( in addition to room , board , cast - off clothes , and tips ) ...
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... England THE ATLANTIC OCEAN Sco Cod Maryland Chesapeake Bay C.Hattera Hispaniola North Sea 50 Davis's Straits Cape 2 40 Breton Barbadoes Tierra Firma SOUTH AMERICA ATL WE N.Foundland The Great Fishing Bank Cape Farervell OCE nland 3d STE ...
... England THE ATLANTIC OCEAN Sco Cod Maryland Chesapeake Bay C.Hattera Hispaniola North Sea 50 Davis's Straits Cape 2 40 Breton Barbadoes Tierra Firma SOUTH AMERICA ATL WE N.Foundland The Great Fishing Bank Cape Farervell OCE nland 3d STE ...
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... England in mid - December 1754 , not , as he says , “ about the beginning of the spring 1757 " ( 67 ) .13 Taking into consideration the approximately fourteen months that he tells us passed between the time he was kidnapped in Africa ...
... England in mid - December 1754 , not , as he says , “ about the beginning of the spring 1757 " ( 67 ) .13 Taking into consideration the approximately fourteen months that he tells us passed between the time he was kidnapped in Africa ...
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... England : " From the time I left my own nation I always found somebody that understood me till I came to the sea coast . The languages of different nations did not totally differ , nor were they so copious as those of the Europeans ...
... England : " From the time I left my own nation I always found somebody that understood me till I came to the sea coast . The languages of different nations did not totally differ , nor were they so copious as those of the Europeans ...
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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