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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... ( London , 1789 ) , Equiano was born in 1745 in what is now southeastern Nigeria . There , he says , he was enslaved at the age of eleven and sold to English slave traders , who took him on the Middle Passage to the West Indies . Within a ...
... ( London , 1789 ) , Equiano was born in 1745 in what is now southeastern Nigeria . There , he says , he was enslaved at the age of eleven and sold to English slave traders , who took him on the Middle Passage to the West Indies . Within a ...
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... London ; Dr. Williams's Library , London ; the Library of the Society of Friends House , London ; the Family Records Centre , London ; the Greater London Record Office ; the Goldsmiths ' Library of the University of London Library ; the ...
... London ; Dr. Williams's Library , London ; the Library of the Society of Friends House , London ; the Family Records Centre , London ; the Greater London Record Office ; the Goldsmiths ' Library of the University of London Library ; the ...
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... London in 1787 of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade . During the eighteenth century abolition almost always referred to eradication of the trade . The term rarely included the much smaller number of people ...
... London in 1787 of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade . During the eighteenth century abolition almost always referred to eradication of the trade . The term rarely included the much smaller number of people ...
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... ( London , 1786 ) , Equiano's future subscriber Thomas Clarkson acknowledged the desirability of dramatizing the transatlantic slave trade by placing the trade in “ the clearest , and most conspicuous point of view , " the victim's ...
... ( London , 1786 ) , Equiano's future subscriber Thomas Clarkson acknowledged the desirability of dramatizing the transatlantic slave trade by placing the trade in “ the clearest , and most conspicuous point of view , " the victim's ...
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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