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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... islands , Equiano managed to save enough money to buy his own freedom in 1766. In Central America he helped purchase and supervised slaves on a plantation . Equiano set off on voyages of commerce and adventure to North America , the ...
... islands , Equiano managed to save enough money to buy his own freedom in 1766. In Central America he helped purchase and supervised slaves on a plantation . Equiano set off on voyages of commerce and adventure to North America , the ...
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... Islands in the Indian Ocean , as currency in West Africa , particularly in the Bight ( bay ) of Benin . The exchange value of a single cowry shell as legal tender increased in direct proportion to its distance from its Indian Ocean ...
... Islands in the Indian Ocean , as currency in West Africa , particularly in the Bight ( bay ) of Benin . The exchange value of a single cowry shell as legal tender increased in direct proportion to its distance from its Indian Ocean ...
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... islands in the Caribbean , Barbados is the closest to Africa . Although Barbados had been surpassed in the eighteenth century by Jamaica as a producer of sugar and the final destination for imported slaves , its location as the first ...
... islands in the Caribbean , Barbados is the closest to Africa . Although Barbados had been surpassed in the eighteenth century by Jamaica as a producer of sugar and the final destination for imported slaves , its location as the first ...
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... island of Guernsey in the English Channel , the Industrious Bee was a snow with six guns , and a burthen , or interior carrying capacity , of only about 120 tons . The eighteenth - century antecedent of gross tonnage , burthen was ...
... island of Guernsey in the English Channel , the Industrious Bee was a snow with six guns , and a burthen , or interior carrying capacity , of only about 120 tons . The eighteenth - century antecedent of gross tonnage , burthen was ...
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... Islands · Durham ENGLAND Aberdeen Manchester Exeter Birmingham . Stockton Tewkesbury Gloucester .Devizes • Deptford Bristol Bath Shetland Islands Nottingham Derby Shrewsbury Guernsey Newcastle Dartmouth 113011 York Hull ...
... Islands · Durham ENGLAND Aberdeen Manchester Exeter Birmingham . Stockton Tewkesbury Gloucester .Devizes • Deptford Bristol Bath Shetland Islands Nottingham Derby Shrewsbury Guernsey Newcastle Dartmouth 113011 York Hull ...
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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