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Providing a vivid account of the eighteenthcentury Western world through his own experiences the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano combines Eqianos own words about issues such as slavery and independence with related documents
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Olaudah Equiano was a prominent African involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade His autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807 Despite his enslavement as a young man he purchased his freedom and worked as an author merchant and explorer in South America the Caribbean the Arctic the American colonies and the United Kingdom
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Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa The African an autobiography published in 1798 Equiano c 17451797 was an African writer and abolitionist who was taken into slavery as a child and transported to the British colony of Virginia This personal account depicts the narrative of Equianos life during his years as a slave from being purchased as a valet to a Royal Navy Lieutenant and his consequent journeys at sea to being taught to read and write in Britain and then his placement with Robert King the wealthy trader who would eventually allow him to buy his freedom Equianos memoirs were published 22 years after his release once he had settled in London and became involved in the abolitionist movement The work is one of the earliest published by a black African author and achieved farreaching popularity and critical acclaim ultimately contributing to the passing of the British Slave Trade Act of 1807
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More than just a fascinating story Olaudah Equianos autobiography the first slave narrative to be widely read reveals many aspects of the eighteenthcentury Western world through the experiences of one individual The second edition takes into consideration the latest scholarship on Atlantic history and the history of slavery Professor Allison s introduction which places Equiano s narrative in the context of the Atlantic slave trade has been revised and updated to include a discussion of the geographic origins of African slaves and the debate over Equiano s birthplace Expanded and improved pedagogical features include contemporary illustrations with extensive captions and a map showing the travels of Equiano in more detail Helpful footnotes provide guidance throughout the eighteenthcentury text and a chronology and an uptodate bibliography aid students in their study of this thoughtprovoking narrative
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The text of Equianos narrative presented here is that of the 1789 first edition It is accompanied by an introduction maps illustrations and annotations Contexts provides essential public writings on the autobiography general and historical background related travel and scientific literature other eighteenthcentury works by authors of African ancestry and works debating the slave trade Criticism includes six contemporary reviews and nine modern essays on the narrative by Paul Edwards Charles T Davis Houston A Baker Jr Angelo Costanzo Catherine Obianju Acholonu Henry Louis Gates Jr Geraldine Murphy Adam Potkay and Robert J Allison A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included Illustrations maps
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More than just a fascinating story Olaudah Equianos autobiography the first slave narrative to be widely read reveals many aspects of the eighteenthcentury Western world through the experiences of one individual This edition is the first in more than twentyfive years to offer the complete text of the Life together with a comprehensive twentypage introduction and useful editorial apparatus designed to help students get the most out of this important work Also included are illustrations a chronology questions for consideration a bibliography and an index
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Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade Olaudah Equianos autobiography the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership reveals many aspects of the eighteenthcentury Western world through the experiences of one individual The second edition reproduces the original London printing supervised by Equiano in 1789 Robert J Allisons introduction which places Equianos narrative in the context of the Atlantic slave trade has been revised and updated to reflect the heated controversy surrounding Equianos birthplace as well as the latest scholarship on Atlantic history and the history of slavery Improved pedagogical features include contemporary illustrations with expanded captions and a map showing Equianos travels in greater detail Helpful footnotes provide guidance throughout the eighteenthcentury text and a chronology and an uptodate bibliography aid students in their study of this thoughtprovoking narrative
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding recordkeeping made possible by advances in the printing press In its determination to preserve the century of revolution Gale initiated a revolution of its own digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind Now for the first time these highquality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print making them highly accessible to libraries undergraduate students and independent scholarsRich in titles on English life and social history this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenthcentury historians and explorers Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries histories of nations from throughout the world and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identificationBritish LibraryT061470London printed and sold for the author by T Wilkins sold also by Mr Johnson Mr Buckland Messrs Robson and Clark Mr Davis Mr Matthews and 3 others in London and the booksellers in Oxford and Cambridge 1789 2vplates 12
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More than just a fascinating story Olaudah Equianos autobiography the first slave narrative to be widely read reveals many aspects of the eighteenthcentury Western world through the experiences of one individual The second edition takes into consideration the latest scholarship on Atlantic history and the history of slavery Professor Allison s introduction which places Equiano s narrative in the context of the Atlantic slave trade has been revised and updated to include a discussion of the geographic origins of African slaves and the debate over Equiano s birthplace Expanded and improved pedagogical features include contemporary illustrations with extensive captions and a map showing the travels of Equiano in more detail Helpful footnotes provide guidance throughout the eighteenthcentury text and a chronology and an uptodate bibliography aid students in their study of this thoughtprovoking narrative
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Olaudah Equiano was a prominent African involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade His autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807 Despite his enslavement as a young man he purchased his freedom and worked as an author merchant and explorer in South America the Caribbean the Arctic the American colonies and the United Kingdom
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding recordkeeping made possible by advances in the printing press In its determination to preserve the century of revolution Gale initiated a revolution of its own digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind Now for the first time these highquality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print making them highly accessible to libraries undergraduate students and independent scholarsRich in titles on English life and social history this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenthcentury historians and explorers Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries histories of nations from throughout the world and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identificationBritish LibraryT061470London printed and sold for the author by T Wilkins sold also by Mr Johnson Mr Buckland Messrs Robson and Clark Mr Davis Mr Matthews and 3 others in London and the booksellers in Oxford and Cambridge 1789 2vplates 12
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Olaudah Equianos capture by slavetraders at the age of ten took him from life in what is now Eastern Nigeria and thrust him on a fateful journey that would submerge him in an incomprehensible world He emerged a gifted writer and has provided insights into centuries of slave trading and why the relationship between black and white seems always in favor of white First published in 1789 Equianos engaging narrative written in English describes his life before and after his capture looking forward to recognition as a descendant of a chief working on slave ships traveling to the southern states of America the West Indies Europe and the Arctic and fighting a war He eventually grew to be an extremely confident man who even in the worst slavery imaginable never lost his sense of purpose or his humanity After buying his freedom he was an ardent supporter of abolishing slavery Written with a sense of literary history Equianos account corrects wrong impressions about Africa and explores what it is like for an African to find himself suddenly alien in a world that considers Africans as not quite human Other titles by African writers from Waveland Press Ba So Long a Letter ISBN 9781577668060 Beti The Poor Christ of Bomba ISBN 9781577664185 Emecheta Kehinde ISBN 9781577664192 Head The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales ISBN 9781478607601 Head Maru ISBN 9781478607618 Head When Rain Clouds Gather ISBN 9781478607595 La Guma In the Fog of the Seasons End ISBN 9781478600251 Marechera The House of Hunger ISBN 9781478604730 Mofolo Chaka ISBN 9781478607151 NgugiMugo The Trial of Dedan Kimathi ISBN 9781478611318 Nwapa Efuru ISBN 9781478611011 Oyono Houseboy ISBN 9781577669883 Oyono The Old Man and the Medal ISBN 9781478609582 pBitek Song of Lawino amp Song of Ocol ISBN 9781478604723 Plaatje Mhudi ISBN 9781478609575 Rifaat Distant Views of a Minaret and Other Short Stories ISBN 9781478611288
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Eric Hobsbawm has been widely acclaimed as one of the greatest living historians Called a lyrical pungent and provocative memoir by Publishers Weekly Interesting Times offers a personal tour through what Hobsbawm terms the most extraordinary and terrible century in human history The book takes us from his birth in Alexandria Egypt and early schooling in Weimar Berlin to his student days as a Cambridge Red and Apostle at Kings College Hobsbawm took EM Forster to hear Lenny Bruce demonstrated with Bertrand Russell against nuclear arms translated for Che Guevara in Havana and inaugurated the modern history of banditry With Interesting Times we see the making of one of the Lefts most important intellectuals and the history of the twentieth century through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants
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Hitler came to power when Eric Hobsbawm was on his way home from school in Berlin and the Soviet Union fell while he was giving a seminar in New York He translated for Che Guevara in Havana had Christmas dinner with a Soviet master spy in Budapest and an evening at home with Mahalia Jackson in Chicago He saw the body of Stalin started the modern history of banditry and is presumably the only Marxist asked to collaborate with the inventor of the Mars bar Multilingual peripatetic sceptical endlessly curious and almost contemporary with the terrible short century which is the subject of his most widely read book Age of Extremes 19141991 Hobsbawm has kept his eyes and ears open for 85 years and has been constantly committed to understanding the interesting times through which he has lived His autobiography is one passionate cosmopolitan Jews account of his travels through that past which is another country where they do things differently and how it became the world of 2002 Hobsbawm takes us from Britain to the countries and cultures of Europe to the USA which he appreciated first through jazz to Latin America Chile India and the Far East and round the dead universe of what was known to its adherents as really existing socialism He shows us the history of the 20th century and the battles of arms and ideology that were fought during it through the unforgiving eye of one of its most intensely engaged participants
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