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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... voyages of commerce and adventure to North America , the Mediterranean , the West Indies , and the North Pole . Equiano was now a man of the Atlantic . A close encounter with death during his Arctic voyage forced him to recognize that ...
... voyages of commerce and adventure to North America , the Mediterranean , the West Indies , and the North Pole . Equiano was now a man of the Atlantic . A close encounter with death during his Arctic voyage forced him to recognize that ...
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... of a large continent to discuss an imaginary " country " called Africa . Another teacher might have chosen the positive image of Africa that Michel Adanson offers in his Voyage B | - | - · - · - · EQUIANO'S AFRICA □ 5.
... of a large continent to discuss an imaginary " country " called Africa . Another teacher might have chosen the positive image of Africa that Michel Adanson offers in his Voyage B | - | - · - · - · EQUIANO'S AFRICA □ 5.
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... 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 voyage , the eightgun , 110 - ton Ogden left England with a ...
... 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 voyage , the eightgun , 110 - ton Ogden left England with a ...
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... deck for most of the voyage to the West Indies . From his privileged vantage point he could see more of the workings of the trade than most slaves were able to ob serve , and he could indulge his curiosity . After 32 CHAPTER TWO.
... deck for most of the voyage to the West Indies . From his privileged vantage point he could see more of the workings of the trade than most slaves were able to ob serve , and he could indulge his curiosity . After 32 CHAPTER TWO.
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... voyage is not known , but we can estimate the losses using surviving data from the voyage the Ogden made the following year.25 On a longer voyage from Liverpool to Bonny to Jamaica , the vessel traveled farther in less time than during ...
... voyage is not known , but we can estimate the losses using surviving data from the voyage the Ogden made the following year.25 On a longer voyage from Liverpool to Bonny to Jamaica , the vessel traveled farther in less time than during ...
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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