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Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2021-06 |
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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 | : 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 | : The Floating Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1775416194 |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and later success in business. Including a look at how slavery stood in West Africa, the book received favorable reviews and was one of the first slave narratives to be read widely.
Author | : OLAUDAH EQUIANO |
Publisher | : ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2024-07-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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"O, ye nominal Christians! Might not an African ask you—learned you this from your God, who says unto you, Do unto all men as you would men should do unto you? Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends to toil for your luxury and lust of gain? Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice? Are the dearest friends and relations, now rendered more dear by their separation from their kindred, still to be parted from each other, and thus prevented from cheering the gloom of slavery, and consoling each other in their distress? If it were not for the help of God, I should have been unable to sustain myself in my enslavement. I have seen the oppression of the white man upon my people, and I have asked, Why? Why is this allowed? Why does the Christian religion, which preaches love and brotherhood, allow such cruelty and injustice to persist? O that men would live their religion, and act according to the precepts of their faith!"
Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : Cosimo, Inc. |
Total 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.
Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781717132574 |
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 - 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa was a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir, or from South Carolina according to other sources. Enslaved as a child, Equiano purchased his own freedom in 1766. He was a prominent abolitionist in the British movement to end the Atlantic slave trade. His autobiography, published in 1789, helped in the creation of the Slave Trade Act 1807 which ended the transatlantic slave trade for Britain and its colonies. In London, Equiano (identifying as Gustavus Vassa during his lifetime) was part of the Sons of Africa, an abolitionist group composed of well-known Africans living in Britain, and he was active among leaders of the anti-slave trade movement in the 1780s. He published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), which depicted the horrors of slavery. It went through nine editions and aided passage of the British Slave Trade Act of 1807, which abolished the African slave trade. As a freedman in London, he supported the British abolitionist movement. Equiano had a stressful life; he had suffered suicidal thoughts before he became a Protestant Christian and found peace in his faith. After settling in London, Equiano married an English woman named Susannah Cullen in 1792 and they had two daughters.
Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : NuVision Publications, LLC |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1794 |
Genre | : Antislavery movements |
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Author | : Olaudah Equiano |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2007-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781406524925 |
The introduction to this new edition of Olaudah Equiano's classic narrative is clear and lucid, full of useful historical background information and superb biographical coverage, written from a completely novel point of view.
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 | : Modern Library |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2004-05-11 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0375761152 |
Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, 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. The narrative “is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence,” writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. “He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic.” The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the author’s final changes to his masterwork.