 Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself
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Introduction Acknowledgments The Text of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself
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
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James Tobin * FromCursory 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 shipBrookes (1786) Gustavus Vassa * Letter to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (February 14, 1789) General Background [Jean Jacques] Rousseau * FromA Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind (1755, trans. 1761) Historical Background 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 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 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 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 Thomas Day and John Bicknell * From The Dying Negro (1773) Criticism Early Reviews and Assessments 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 GrÈgoire * Vassa (1808) Lydia Maria Child * [Olaudah Equiano] (1833) Modern Criticism 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 Olaudah Equiano: A Chronology Selected Bibliography
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