Bibliograph

Type

Label

Equiano, the African, biography of a self-made man, Vincent Carretta

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-417) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Equiano, the African

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

60323361

Responsibility statement

Vincent Carretta

Sub title

biography of a self-made man

Summary

Biography of Olaudah Equiana (1745-1797), the former slave who, in his day, was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent. His greatest legacy is his 1789 autobiography, "The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African." A key document of the early movement to ban the slave trade, this classic includes the earliest known firsthand description by a slave of the horrific Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. The author argues that Equiano may have been born in South Carolina and possibly fabricated his African roots and his survival of the Middle Passage not only to sell more copies of his book but also to help advance the movement against the slave trade

Table Of Contents

Note on money -- ch. 1. Equiano's Africa -- ch. 2. The Middle Passage -- ch. 3. At sea -- ch. 4. Freedom denied -- ch. 5. Bearing witness -- ch. 6. Freedom of a sort -- ch. 7. Toward the North Pole -- ch. 8. Born again -- ch. 9. Seeking a mission -- ch. 10. The Black poor -- ch. 11. Turning against the slave trade -- ch. 12. Making a life -- ch. 13. The art of the book -- ch. 14. A self-made man

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