Equiano, the African
Title | Equiano, the African PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Carretta |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2022-09-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820362972 |
This 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.
The African
Title | The African PDF eBook |
Author | Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | Black Classics |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Slaves |
ISBN | 9781874509622 |
The first book ever to be published by a black man in Britain, this story of Equiano's life from freedom in Africa through slavery and back to freedom was a best-seller when first issued in 1789.
Equiano, the African
Title | Equiano, the African PDF eBook |
Author | Vincent Carretta |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 463 |
Release | 2022-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0820369357 |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano Illustrated Edition
Title | The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano Illustrated Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2021-06 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. The narrative is argued to be a variety of styles, such as a slavery narrative, travel narrative, and spiritual narrative. The book describes Equiano's time spent in enslavement, and documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter.
The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative PDF eBook |
Author | Audrey Fisch |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 230 |
Release | 2007-05-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1139827596 |
The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.
An African's Life
Title | An African's Life PDF eBook |
Author | James Walvin |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
It is, at one and the same time, an original portrait of a remarkable African and a study of the world of eighteenth-century Atlantic slavery.
The Life of Olaudah Equiano
Title | The Life of Olaudah Equiano PDF eBook |
Author | Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | Cosimo, Inc. |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2007-10-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1602068003 |
An eighteenth-century memoir in which Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate.