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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... 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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... called a self - made man than the writer now best known as Olaudah Equiano . According to his autobiography , The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano , or Gustavus Vassa , the African . Written by Himself ( London ...
... called a self - made man than the writer now best known as Olaudah Equiano . According to his autobiography , The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano , or Gustavus Vassa , the African . Written by Himself ( London ...
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... called himself , Equiano was the epitome of what the historian Ira Berlin has called an " Atlantic creole " : sea . Along the periphery of the Atlantic - first in Africa , then in Europe , and finally in the Americas - [ Anglophone ...
... called himself , Equiano was the epitome of what the historian Ira Berlin has called an " Atlantic creole " : sea . Along the periphery of the Atlantic - first in Africa , then in Europe , and finally in the Americas - [ Anglophone ...
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... called himself Equiano . He retained Gustavus Vassa as his legal name , and it appears on his baptismal , naval , and marriage records as well as in his will . In all his writings other than The Interesting Narrative he used Vassa in ...
... called himself Equiano . He retained Gustavus Vassa as his legal name , and it appears on his baptismal , naval , and marriage records as well as in his will . In all his writings other than The Interesting Narrative he used Vassa in ...
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... called for in the relationship between Britain and Africa . The author of The Interesting Narrative was an even more profoundly selfmade man than Franklin if he invented an identity to suit the times . Why might Equiano have created an ...
... called for in the relationship between Britain and Africa . The author of The Interesting Narrative was an even more profoundly selfmade man than Franklin if he invented an identity to suit the times . Why might Equiano have created an ...
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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