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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... published in 1998 by James Walvin , an eminent historian of slavery and the slave trade . These last thirty - five years have witnessed a renaissance of interest in Equiano's autobiography and its author . During Equiano's own lifetime ...
... published in 1998 by James Walvin , an eminent historian of slavery and the slave trade . These last thirty - five years have witnessed a renaissance of interest in Equiano's autobiography and its author . During Equiano's own lifetime ...
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... published anthology entitled The Classic Slave Narratives . It includes an 1814 edition of The Interesting Narrative . Although I had heard of Equiano before then , I had never seen a copy of his work , and from what I had read about it ...
... published anthology entitled The Classic Slave Narratives . It includes an 1814 edition of The Interesting Narrative . Although I had heard of Equiano before then , I had never seen a copy of his work , and from what I had read about it ...
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... published and unpublished works , many of which have only very recently been recovered . I have tried to take these writings into account wherever possible . I have also tried to deal with published and unpublished writings that were ...
... published and unpublished works , many of which have only very recently been recovered . I have tried to take these writings into account wherever possible . I have also tried to deal with published and unpublished writings that were ...
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... published in the London and provincial press . His very few remaining private letters are all quite brief and mainly deal with business matters . In the sense of raising himself from poverty and obscurity , Equiano was a more self ...
... published in the London and provincial press . His very few remaining private letters are all quite brief and mainly deal with business matters . In the sense of raising himself from poverty and obscurity , Equiano was a more self ...
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... , in local currency , 7s . 6d . in Philadelphia and 8 shillings in New York . Conversion charts showing the value of foreign money in colonial currency and pounds sterling were frequently published throughout Note on Money.
... , in local currency , 7s . 6d . in Philadelphia and 8 shillings in New York . Conversion charts showing the value of foreign money in colonial currency and pounds sterling were frequently published throughout Note on Money.
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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