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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... Passage / 17 Chapter Three . At Sea / 39 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 ...
... Passage / 17 Chapter Three . At Sea / 39 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 ...
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... Passage to the West Indies . Within a few days , he tells us , he was taken to Virginia and sold to a local planter . After about a month in Virginia he was purchased by Michael Henry Pascal , an officer in the British Royal Navy who ...
... Passage to the West Indies . Within a few days , he tells us , he was taken to Virginia and sold to a local planter . After about a month in Virginia he was purchased by Michael Henry Pascal , an officer in the British Royal Navy who ...
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... Passage crossing the Atlantic to America . Indeed , it is difficult to think of any historical account of the Middle Passage that does not quote his eyewitness description of its horrors as primary evidence . Interest in Equiano has not ...
... Passage crossing the Atlantic to America . Indeed , it is difficult to think of any historical account of the Middle Passage that does not quote his eyewitness description of its horrors as primary evidence . Interest in Equiano has not ...
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... Passage on a slave ship.3 Other newly found evidence proves that Equiano first came to England years earlier than he says . He was clearly willing to manipulate at least some of the details of his life . Problematic as such evidence may ...
... Passage on a slave ship.3 Other newly found evidence proves that Equiano first came to England years earlier than he says . He was clearly willing to manipulate at least some of the details of his life . Problematic as such evidence may ...
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... Passage . Since Equiano's is the only story available for this period of his life , I have chosen to treat it in the following pages as if it were true , expecting readers to keep in mind that this part of his account of his life may be ...
... Passage . Since Equiano's is the only story available for this period of his life , I have chosen to treat it in the following pages as if it were true , expecting readers to keep in mind that this part of his account of his life may be ...
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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