The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
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- Slave trade -- Africa, West -- History
- Abolitionists -- Great Britain -- History
- Slaves -- United States -- 18th century -- Biography
- Electronic books
- Antislavery movements -- United States -- Early works to 1800
- Black people -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Slave trade -- Great Britain -- History
- Slaves -- Personal narratives
- Slavery -- Great Britain -- History
- Africa -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
- Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- Early works to 1800
- Abolitionists -- United States -- History
- Slaves -- Great Britain -- 18th century -- Biography
- Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797
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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
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eng
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non fiction
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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
Summary
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. The Interesting Narrative, published in 1789 to considerable acclaim, has been compared to Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and reviewed by Mary Wollstonecraft. Equiano's life and work took shape in an era of revolution-against slavery, against injustice, against tyranny. Moreover, Equiano's Narrative was deeply informed by the forces that have given the modern nation-state its present recognizable characteristics. Equiano effectively challenges concepts of Englishness as an absolute ethnic category. His narrative stands as one of the earliest written works of literature by an African of the diaspora, and is certainly one of the earliest works in Western history to combine the genres of spiritual autobiography, social protest, abolitionist tract, and travelogue in such a way as to mark him a significant commentator upon and a vocal critic of the ideals of the Enlightenment
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