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Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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Third  Edition©2016  Robert J. Allison

ISBN:9781319328276

ISBN:9781319048914

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano illustrates life in the eighteenth century Western world using the authors words as well as the latest scholarly research. Focused on the experiences of one invidiual, youll learn about such polarizing topics as the Atlantic slave trade through the singular experience of one person.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

Preface

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

1. Olaudah Equiano, Letter to James Tobin, January 28, 1788

2. Olaudah Equiano, Letter to Thomas Hardy, May 28, 1792

3. Mary Wollstonecraft, Review of Equiano’s Narrative, 1789

4. The Declaration of Independence, 1776

5. The Debate over the Slave Trade at the Constitutional Convention, August 22, 1787

Appendixes

An Equiano Chronology (1741-1886)

Questions for Consideration

Selected Bibliography

Index

Robert J. Allison

Robert J. Allison (Ph.D., Harvard University) is a professor and chair of　the History Department at Suffolk University. His books include The American Revolution: A Very Short Introduction, A Short History of Boston, and The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776–1815. He produced "Before 1776: Life in the American Colonies" for the Teaching Companys Great Courses. He is vice president of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society.