Publication

2005 - University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia

Language

English

Word Count

109,000 words, Guess

Page Count

436 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number2005011898
  • LibraryThing420780
  • Goodreads1235886

Classifications

  • DDC306.3/62/092
  • LCCHT869.E6 C37 2005

Description

This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745??97), who in his day was the English-speaking world?s most renowned person of African descent. Equiano?s greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. A key document of the early movement to ban the slave trade, it includes the earliest known firsthand description by a slave of the horrific Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas. Equiano, the African is filled with fresh revelations about this many-sided figure?most notably that Equiano may have been born not in Africa, as he claimed, but in South Carolina."--Publisher website (October 2006).

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography.

Other Editions

  • Equiano, the African: biography of a self-made manUniversity of Georgia Press2005-01-01

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