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Vincent CarrettaPublication Details
BookUniversity of Georgia Press2005Availability
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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, 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. Carretta argues that Equiano may have fabricated his African roots and his survival of the Middle Passage not only to sell more copies of his book but also to help advance the movement against the slave trade. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
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Contents
- Equiano’s Africa
- The Middle Passage
- At sea
- Freedom denied
- Bearing witness
- Freedom of a sort
- Toward the North Pole
- Born again
- Seeking a mission - - The Black poor
- Turning against the slave trade
- Making a life
- The art of the book
- A self-made man
ISBN
- 0820325716
- 9780820325712
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