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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... command . They could not marry or practice their religion without permission . Their bodies and hence their sexuality and reproductive capacities belonged to their masters . They lacked any legal standing in the eyes of the law except ...
... command . They could not marry or practice their religion without permission . Their bodies and hence their sexuality and reproductive capacities belonged to their masters . They lacked any legal standing in the eyes of the law except ...
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... command of William Cooper to begin the ten- to twelve - week voyage to Bonny for a cargo of four hundred slaves.18 Hoping to make at least the 10 percent profit that was the average profit a slave ship realized within a few years of its ...
... command of William Cooper to begin the ten- to twelve - week voyage to Bonny for a cargo of four hundred slaves.18 Hoping to make at least the 10 percent profit that was the average profit a slave ship realized within a few years of its ...
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... command of James Walker the Ogden arrived at Barbados on 9 May 1754 , delivering a cargo of 243 enslaved Africans after a voyage that normally took about two months . The original captain , William Cooper , may have been one of the many ...
... command of James Walker the Ogden arrived at Barbados on 9 May 1754 , delivering a cargo of 243 enslaved Africans after a voyage that normally took about two months . The original captain , William Cooper , may have been one of the many ...
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... command of a merchant vessel was called captain , on the Industrious Bee Lieutenant Pascal temporarily became Captain Pascal . The small ship and its crew reflected the transatlantic nature of the eighteenth - century British imperial ...
... command of a merchant vessel was called captain , on the Industrious Bee Lieutenant Pascal temporarily became Captain Pascal . The small ship and its crew reflected the transatlantic nature of the eighteenth - century British imperial ...
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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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