Narrative of the Life of Olaudiah Equiano
The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition.\ It is accompanied by an introduction, maps, illustrations, and annotations. "Contexts" provides essential public writings on the autobiography, general and historical background, related travel and scientific literature, other eighteenth-century works by authors of African ancestry, and works debating the slave trade.\ "Criticism" includes six contemporary reviews and nine modern essays on the narrative by Paul...
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The text of Equiano’s narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition.BooknewsOlaudah Equiano's 1789 narrative tells the remarkable story of his childhood in Africa, his kidnapping and subsequent years as a slave and seaman, and his eventual road to freedom in the Caribbean and in England. The text reprinted here is that of the 1789 first edition, along with explanatory notes. The book includes letters, essays, and other documents from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as contemporary and modern criticism, plus a chronology. Sollors teaches English literature and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, where he also chairs the Department of History of American Civilization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
IntroductionixAcknowledgmentsxxxiiiMap: Equiano's World2Title page5Frontispiece6List of Subscribers8Contents of Volumes I and II16The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself19Note on the Text179Selected Variants181Additions181Selected Textual Differences between the First and Ninth Editions189ContextsIllustration: Nautical Terms193Related Public WritingsFrom Cursory Remarks [upon James Ramsay's Antislavery Writing] (1785)195Letter to James Tobin (January 28, 1788)196From Humanity; or, the Rights of Nature (1788)199Letter to the Author of the Poem on Humanity (June 27, 1788)203Illustration: "Description of a Slave Ship"204Letter to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (February 14, 1789)205General BackgroundFrom A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind (1755, transl. 1761)206Historical Background[Humanitarianism, John Wesley, and Gustavus Vassa]210[The Nature of the Protest]216From Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves' Account of Their Bondage and Freedom217[The Rupture and the Ordeal]222Eighteenth-Century English Literature on Commerce and Slavery228Illustrations: I. Cruikshank, William Blake, and Anonymous242Travel and Scientific LiteratureFrom Some Historical Account of Guinea (1771)250From A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone (1788)253From Essay on the Causes of the Different Colours of People in Different Climates (1744)256Eighteenth-Century Authors of African Ancestry[From A Narrative] (1770, 1774)259[A Captive of the Cherokees] (1785)265[Reflections and Memories] (1787)269The English Debate About the Slave TradeFrom An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (1786)277Letter to William Wilberforce Commenting on Gustavus Vassa (February 24, 1791)281From Speech in the House of Commons (May 13, 1789)282From The 1791 Debate in the House of Commons on the Abolition of the Slave Trade283Antislavery VerseFrom The Dying Negro (1773)288CriticismEarly Reviews and AssessmentsFrom the Monthly Review (1789)295From General Magazine and Impartial Review (1789)296"W." [May Wollstonecraft] [Review of The Interesting Narrative] (1789)296From Gentleman's Magazine (1789)297Vassa (1808)298[Olaudah Equiano] (1833)301Modern CriticismFrom Introduction to The Life of Olaudah Equiano302From The Slave Narrative: First Major Art Form in an Emerging Black Tradition338From Figurations for a New American Literary History339From The Spiritual Autobiography and Slave Narrative of Olaudah Equiano348The Home of Olaudah Equiano--A Linguistic and Anthropological Search351From The Trope of the Talking Book361Olaudah Equiano, Accidental Tourist368From Olaudah Equiano and the Art of Spiritual Autobiography382Equiano's Narrative as an Abolitionist Tool393Olaudah Equiano: A Chronology397Selected Bibliography401
\ BooknewsOlaudah Equiano's 1789 narrative tells the remarkable story of his childhood in Africa, his kidnapping and subsequent years as a slave and seaman, and his eventual road to freedom in the Caribbean and in England. The text reprinted here is that of the 1789 first edition, along with explanatory notes. The book includes letters, essays, and other documents from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as contemporary and modern criticism, plus a chronology. Sollors teaches English literature and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University, where he also chairs the Department of History of American Civilization. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
