Contents
- The Text of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
- Map: Equiano’s World
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- List of Subscribers
- Contents of Volumes I and II
- The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
- Notes on the Text
- Selected Varients
- Additions
- Selected Textual Differences between First and Ninth Editions
- Contexts
- Illustration: Nautical Terms Related Public Writings
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- James Tobin, From Cursory Remarks [upon James Ramsay’s Antislavery Writing] (1785)
- Gustavas Vassa, Letter to James Tobin (January 28, 1788)
- Samuel Jackson Pratt, From Humanity; or, the Rights of Nature(1788)
- Gustavus Vassa, Letter to the Author of the Poem on Humanit (June 27, 1788)
- Illustration: Cross section of the slave ship Brookes (1786)
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- Gustavus Vassa, Letter to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (February 14, 1789)
- General Background
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- [Jean Jacques] Rousseau, From A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind (1755, trans. 1761)
- Historical Background
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- Eva Beatrice Dykes, [Humanitarianism, John Wesley, and Gustavus Vassa]
- Wylie Sypher, [The Nature of the Protest]
- Charles H. Nichols, From Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves’ Account of Their Bondage and Freedom
- Nathan I. Huggins, [The Rupture and the Ordeal]
- David Dabydeen, Eighteenth-Century English Literature on Commerce and Slavery
- Illustrations: I. Cruikshank, William Blake, and Anonymous
- Travel and Scientific Literature
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- Anthony Benezet, From Some Historical Account of Guinea (1771)
- John Matthews, From A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leon (1788)
- John Mitchell, From Essay on the Causes on the Different Colours of People in Different Climates(1744)
- Eighteenth-Century Authors of African Ancestry
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- James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, [Selections from His Autobiography] (1770, 1774)
- John Marrant, [A Captive of the Cherokees] (1785)
- Quobna Ottabah Cugoano, [Reflections and Memories] (1787)
- The English Debate about the Slave Trade
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- Thomas Clarkson, From An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (1786)
- John Wesley, Letter to William Wilberforce Commenting on Gustavus Vassa (February 24, 1791)
- William Wilberforce, Speech in the House of Commons (May 13, 1789)
- 1791 Debate in the House of Commons on the Abolition of the Slave Trade
- Antislavery Verse
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- Thomas Day and John Bicknell, From The Dying Negro (1773)
- Criticism
- Early Reviews and Assessments
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- From the Monthly Review (1789)
- From General Magazine and Impartial Review (1789)
- "W." [Mary Wollstonecraft], [Review of The Interesting Narrative] (1789)
- Richard Gough, [From Gentleman’s Magazine] (1789)
- Henri Grégoire, Vassa (1808)
- Lydia Maria Child, [Olaudah Equiano] (1833)
- Modern Criticism
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- Paul Edwards, Introduction to The Life of Olaudah Equiano
- Charles T. Davis, From The Slave Narrative: First Major Art Form in an Emerging Black Tradition
- Houston A. Baker, Jr., From Figurations for a New American Literary History
- Angelo Costanzo, From The Spiritual Autobiography and Slave Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
- Catherine Obianju Acholonu, The Home of Olaudah Equiano-A Linguistic and Anthropological Search
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr., From The Trope of the Talking Book
- Geraldine Murphy, Olaudah Equiano: Accidental Tourist
- Adam Potkay, From Olaudah Equiano and the Art of Spiritual Autobiography
- Robert J. Allison, Equiano’s Narrative as an Abolitionist Tool
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