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Author | : Zachary McLeod Hutchins |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2022-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1469671557 |
In the antebellum United States, formerly enslaved men and women who told their stories and advocated for abolition helped establish a new genre with widely recognized tropes: the slave narrative. This book investigates how enslaved black Africans conceived of themselves and their stories before the War of American Independence and the genre's development in the nineteenth century. Zachary McLeod Hutchins argues that colonial newspapers were pivotal in shaping popular understandings of both slavery and the black African experience well before the slave narrative's proliferation. Introducing the voices and art of black Africans long excluded from the annals of literary history, Hutchins shows how the earliest life writing by and about enslaved black Africans established them as political agents in an Atlantic world defined by diplomacy, war, and foreign relations. In recovering their stories, Hutchins sheds new light on how black Africans became Black Americans; how the earliest accounts of enslaved life were composed editorially from textual fragments rather than authored by a single hand; and how the public discourse of slavery shifted from the language of just wars and foreign policy to a heritable, race-based system of domestic oppression.
Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2021-06 |
Genre | : |
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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.
Author | : Vincent Carretta |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total 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.
Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2024-09-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385610044 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.
Author | : Ann Cameron |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 161 |
Release | : 2010-12-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0307770222 |
Kidnapped at the age of 11 from his home in Benin, Africa, Olaudah Equiano spent the next 11 years as a slave in England, the U.S., and the West Indies, until he was able to buy his freedom. His autobiography, published in 1789, was a bestseller in its own time. Cameron has modernized and shortened it while remaining true to the spirit of the original. It's a gripping story of adventure, betrayal, cruelty, and courage. In searing scenes, Equiano describes the savagery of his capture, the appalling conditions on the slave ship, the auction, and the forced labor. . . . Kids will read this young man's story on their own; it will also enrich curriculum units on history and on writing.
Author | : Paul Thomas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Readers |
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Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : Prabhat Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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.
Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2021-07-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857089145 |
DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE Olaudah Equiano’s interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and eventual emancipation that has horrified and enlightened readers for over 200 years. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano is a seminal work in a genre that seeks to help us better shape the present by understanding our violent past. An insightful Introduction from Atlantic slave trade expert Michael Taylor sheds light on Equiano’s life, including his spiritual conversion, his wide travels, and the impact of his writing on the eventual abolition of slavery.
Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : Black Classics |
Total 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.
Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2001-02-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781551112626 |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano was a key work of nineteenth-century slave narrative autobiography. Written and published by Equiano, a former slave, it became a prototype for the narratives that followed. Kidnapped in Africa as a child, Equiano was transported to the Caribbean and then to Virginia, bought by a Quaker shipowner, and placed in service at sea. Aboard various American and British ships, he sailed throughout the world, and he continued to do so after having purchased his freedom in 1766. Once settled in London, he fought tirelessly to end slavery. This edition of Equiano’s Narrative places the text in the center of abolitionist activity in the late eighteenth century. Equiano knew many of the leading abolitionist figures of his time, and this edition allows readers to trace the common ideas and cross-influences in the works of the political and literary figures who fought for the end of slavery in America and England. The original 1789 text of the narrative has been used for the Broadview edition with Equiano’s subsequent emendations included in the appendices.