The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself
ISBN: 9780312442033 | 0312442033
Edition: 2ndFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Pub. Date: 4/7/2006
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Widely admired for its vivid accounts of the slave trade, Olaudah Equiano's autobiography -- the first slave narrative to attract a significant readership -- reveals many aspects of the eighteenth-century Western world through the experiences of one individual. The second edition reproduces the original London printing, supervised by Equiano in 1789. Robert J. Allison's introduction, which places Equiano's narrative in the context of the Atlantic slave trade, has been revised and updated to reflect the heated controversy surrounding Equiano's b... MORE
| Foreword | v | ||||
| Preface | vii | ||||
| LIST OF MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS | xi | ||||
| PART ONE Introduction: Equiano's Worlds | 7 | (30) | |||
| 8 | (4) | |||
| 12 | (7) | |||
| 19 | (2) | |||
| 21 | (3) | |||
| 24 | (3) | |||
| 27 | (4) | |||
| 31 | (6) | |||
| PART TWO The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself | 37 | (178) | |||
| 41 | (1) | |||
| 42 | (88) | |||
| 130 | (85) | |||
| PART THREE Related Documents | 215 | (11) | |||
| 215 | (4) | |||
| 219 | (1) | |||
| 220 | (2) | |||
| 222 | (4) | |||
| APPENDIXES | |||||
| 226 | (6) | |||
| 232 | (2) | |||
| 234 | (3) | |||
| Index | 237 |
ROBERT J. ALLISON (Ph.D., Harvard University) is associate professor of history and chair of the department at Suffolk University, where he teaches U.S. and world history and the history of Boston. He is the author of A Short History of Boston (2004) and The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World 1776–1815 (2000). He has edited two volumes of twentieth-century American political and social history: History In Dispute: The Pursuit of Progress, 1900–1945 and The Pursuit of Liberty, 1945–2000 (2000). He has also edited several volumes in the award-winning American Eras series, including The Revolutionary Era, 1754–1783 (1998) and The Development of a Nation, 1783–1815 (1997). Allison is an elected life member of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts and a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is currently working on a biography of the American naval hero Stephen Decatur.
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