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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... French Revolution , its author had publicly used only his legal name , Gustavus Vassa , the slave name he had been given thirty - five years earlier . He had , ironically , been named after Gustavus Vasa , the sixteenth - century ...
... French Revolution , its author had publicly used only his legal name , Gustavus Vassa , the slave name he had been given thirty - five years earlier . He had , ironically , been named after Gustavus Vasa , the sixteenth - century ...
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... for such a young refuse slave ( 63–64 ) . One of the happiest periods of the eight- or nine - year - old slave's life was about to begin . Chapter Three AT SEA Of French Protestant extraction , Michael 38 CHAPTER TWO.
... for such a young refuse slave ( 63–64 ) . One of the happiest periods of the eight- or nine - year - old slave's life was about to begin . Chapter Three AT SEA Of French Protestant extraction , Michael 38 CHAPTER TWO.
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Biography of a Self-Made Man Vincent Carretta. Chapter Three AT SEA Of French Protestant extraction , Michael Henry Pascal had received his commission as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1745 during the War of Jenkins ' Ear . That ...
Biography of a Self-Made Man Vincent Carretta. Chapter Three AT SEA Of French Protestant extraction , Michael Henry Pascal had received his commission as a lieutenant in the Royal Navy in 1745 during the War of Jenkins ' Ear . That ...
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... French superiority on land ended in an inconclusive and unstable restoration of the status quo before the war . The Treaty of Aix - laChapelle in 1748 required Britain to return its only significant conquest , the strategic fort of ...
... French superiority on land ended in an inconclusive and unstable restoration of the status quo before the war . The Treaty of Aix - laChapelle in 1748 required Britain to return its only significant conquest , the strategic fort of ...
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... French and Indian War ) . The first truly worldwide conflict , the Seven Years ' War rendered Britain an undisputed imperial superpower . Equiano's autobiography is the most extended and detailed account of naval experience left by any ...
... French and Indian War ) . The first truly worldwide conflict , the Seven Years ' War rendered Britain an undisputed imperial superpower . Equiano's autobiography is the most extended and detailed account of naval experience left by any ...
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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