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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... sailed for England . I was still at a loss to conjecture my destiny . By this time , however , I could smatter a little imperfect English ; and I wanted to know as well as I could where we were going . Some of the people of the ship ...
... sailed for England . I was still at a loss to conjecture my destiny . By this time , however , I could smatter a little imperfect English ; and I wanted to know as well as I could where we were going . Some of the people of the ship ...
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... thirteen weeks , " arrived at Falmouth , where he first encountered snow ( 67 ) . Pascal must have sailed from Virginia with his newly purchased slave in early September 1754 , because on 14 December 1754 , AT SEA 43.
... thirteen weeks , " arrived at Falmouth , where he first encountered snow ( 67 ) . Pascal must have sailed from Virginia with his newly purchased slave in early September 1754 , because on 14 December 1754 , AT SEA 43.
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... sailed to London to sell his cargo of tobacco . Equiano would not see his master , Pascal , again until he joined him aboard the Roebuck in August 1755 , nearly a month after Pascal had been appointed the ship's first lieutenant . Only ...
... sailed to London to sell his cargo of tobacco . Equiano would not see his master , Pascal , again until he joined him aboard the Roebuck in August 1755 , nearly a month after Pascal had been appointed the ship's first lieutenant . Only ...
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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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