The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
202The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself
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ISBN-13: | 9781613820964 |
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Publisher: | Simon & Brown |
Publication date: | 08/27/2018 |
Pages: | 202 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d) |
About the Author
ROBERT J. ALLISON (Ph.D., Harvard University) is associate professor of history and chair of the department at Suffolk University, where he teaches U.S. and world history and the history of Boston. He is the author of A Short History of Boston (2004) and The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World 1776-1815 (2000). He has edited two volumes of twentieth-century American political and social history: History In Dispute: The Pursuit of Progress, 1900-1945 and The Pursuit of Liberty, 1945-2000 (2000). He has also edited several volumes in the award-winning American Eras series, including The Revolutionary Era, 1754-1783 (1998) and The Development of a Nation, 1783-1815 (1997). Allison is an elected life member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is currently working on a biography of the American naval hero Stephen Decatur.
Table of Contents
ForewordPreface
LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS
PART ONE
Introduction: Equiano’s Worlds
Olaudah Equiano and the Eighteenth-Century World
Equiano and the Antislavery Movement
African Identities in the New World
Equiano’s Narrative as an Abolitionist Tool
The Question of Equiano’s Origins
The Literary Context of Equiano’s Narrative
Equiano’s Legacy
PART TWO
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
Dedication
Volume I
Volume II
PART THREE
Related Documents
Olaudah Equiano, Letter to James Tobin, January 28, 1788
Olaudah Equiano, Letter to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, February 7, 1789
Olaudah Equiano, Letter to Thomas Hardy, May 28, 1792
William Blake, Illustrations for Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition . . . by John G. Stedman, 1796
APPENDIXES
An Equiano Chronology
Questions for Consideration
Selected Bibliography
Index