Equiano, the African
Subtitle: biography of a self-made man
By: Vincent Carretta.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9780820325712
Subjects: Equiano, Olaudah, b. 1745; Slaves -- Great Britain -- Biography; Slaves -- United States -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745??97), 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. A key document of the early movement to ban the slave trade, it includes the earliest known firsthand description by a slave of the horrific Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. Equiano, the African is filled with fresh revelations about this many-sided figure?most notably that Equiano may have been born not in Africa, as he claimed, but in South Carolina."--Publisher website (October 2006).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Equiano's Africa; title: The Middle Passage; title: At sea; title: Freedom denied; title: Bearing witness; title: Freedom of a sort; title: Toward the North Pole; title: Born again; title: Seeking a mission; title: The Black poor; title: Turning against the slave trade; title: Making a life; title: The art of the book; title: A self-made man.