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BBC - History - Society And Culture - Protest And Reform - olaudah equiano c.1745c.1797, olaudah equiano is famous for his autobiography,an account of his childhood in an area called 'Eboe http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/protest_reform/equiano.shtml
James Cook And Olaudah Equiano I was born in north England. My parents were poor farm workers. I decidedto run away to sea. I was lucky to get a job on the boats http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/walk/timestrip/cook_equi.shtml
Extractions: I was born in Essaka, a small village in West Africa. When I was about 11 years old, I was kidnapped and sold as a slave. I never saw my family again. I was put on a ship and taken to America. It was a horrible experience. I was sold to an English sailor who took me to London. For ten years I worked as a slave on ships that sailed around Europe. I taught myself to read and write. When I was 21, I paid my freedom. I carried on working. I visited many places and fought in wars. I saw how cruelly my fellow Africans were treated.
Extractions: Olaudah Equiano and his sister were kidnapped in Africa, in what is present-day Nigeria. The eleven-year-old Equiano was later separated from his sister and placed aboard a slave ship that sailed across the Atlantic on the Middle Passage, the deadly link on Great Britains lucrative commercial route in the eighteenth century. Trading vessels laden with weapons and cotton products sailed from British ports to purchase slaves in Africa. The human cargo was taken across the ocean and sold to estate owners in the Americas in exchange for rum and sugar. The ships then sailed back to England and repeated the three-part voyage.
Africans In America/Part 1/Equiano's Autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of olaudah equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, TheAfrican Chapter 2 I hope the reader will not think I have trespassed on his http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1h320t.html
Extractions: I hope the reader will not think I have trespassed on his patience in introducing myself to him with some account of the manners and customs of my country. They had been implanted in me with great care, and made an impression on my mind, which time could not erase, and which all the adversity and variety of furtune I have since experienced, served only to rivet and record: for, whether the love of one's country be real or imaginary, or a lesson of reason, or an instinct of nature, I still look back with pleasure on the first scenes of my life, though that pleasure has been for the most part mingled with sorrow. I was there I suppose about a month, and they at last used to trust me some little distance from the house. This liberty I used in embracing every opportunity to inquire the way to my own home; and I also sometimes, for the same purpose, went with the maidens, in the cool of the evenings, to bring pitchers of water from the springs for the use of the house. I had also remarked where the sun rose in the morning, and set in the evening, as I had travelled along; and I had observed that my father's house was towards the rising of the sun. I therefore determined to seize the first opportunity of making my escape, and to shape my course for that quarter; for I was quite oppressed and weighed down by grief after my mother and friends; and my love of liberty, ever great, was strengthened by the mortifying circumstance of not daring to eat with the free-bom children, although I was mostly their companion.
A SON OF AFRICA: Facilitator's Guide Madison University of Wisconsin Press 1967. equiano, olaudah; Vincent Carretta,ed., The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings, New York Penguin 1995. http://www.newsreel.org/guides/equiano.htm
Extractions: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Selected Bibliography Bontemps, Arna, ed., Great Slave Narratives . Boston: Beacon Press 1969. Curtin, Philip D., ed. Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade . Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 1967. Equiano, Olaudah; Vincent Carretta, ed., The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings , New York: Penguin 1995. Feelings, Tom, The Middle Passage: White Ships/Black Cargo . New York: Dial Books 1995. Gates, Jr., Henry Louis, ed.
Olaudah Equiano Conference olaudah equiano Representation and Reality. An International OneDay ConferenceSaturday 22 March 2003. Carretta, Vincent, 'olaudah equiano or Gustavus Vassa? http://humansciences.king.ac.uk/humanities/english/equiano.html
Extractions: Saturday 22 March 2003 Academic study of Olaudah Equiano has been energised in recent years by arguments asserting that some aspects of The Interesting Narrative (1789) may not represent Equiano's personal experience. In particular, the critics S.E. Ogude and Vincent Carretta have cast doubt over Equiano's account of his birth and upbringing in Africa, his kidnapping, and his experience of the Middle Passage. While Ogude's argument is based in textual analysis, Carretta's evidence emerges from archival work - yet both reach similar conclusions: that Equiano probably never visited Africa, and that the early parts of his Narrative are most likely rhetorical exercises, largely 'based on oral history and reading, rather than on personal experience'. As yet, Ogude and Carretta's findings have not been fully tested by the academy, nor have all the possible implications been explored. The many students and general readers of Equiano are invited to read the early
Olaudah Equiano Conference olaudah equiano Representation and Reality. An International OneDay ConferenceSaturday 22 March 2003. Conference Speakers and Paper Titles http://humansciences.king.ac.uk/humanities/english/equiprog.html
Extractions: Saturday 22 March 2003 John Bugg, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA: Until I should advertise myself": Olaudah Equiano and the Trope of the Talking Author. Dr Brycchan Carey, Kingston University, UK: Opening Address. Professor Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland, USA: Searching for Equiano. Professor Tess Chakkalakal and Professor Stephen Meardon, Williams College, Massachusetts, USA: Equiano's Economics. Professor Angelo Costanzo, Professor Emeritus of English at Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, USA: 'Neither a Saint, a Hero, nor a Tyrant'. Professor Kenneth R. Curtis, California State University Long Beach, USA: Equiano and World History: 'The Interesting Narrative' as a Key to Understanding the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic System. Tara E. Czechowski, Fordham College, New York, USA: A Tableau of Pain: Undermining Pathologies of the African in Olaudah Equiano's 'Interesting Narrative'. Professor Clenora Hudson-Weems, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA:
Extractions: As a free man on a Central American plantation, he supervised slaves; increasingly disgusted by the effect of slavery on his co-workers, he returned to England in 1774. In England he worked for the resettlement of black people in Sierra Leone, married an Englishwoman, and became a leading and respected figure in the anti-slave movement.
Extractions: The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Dialogues Notes Links Teaching ... Citations In 1789, in England, freed slave and abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African. This autobiography became the prototype for the genre of the slave narrative, and was the beginning of the canon of African literature in English. TIMELINE 1745 Equiano born in West Africa 1755 Captured and sold into slavery 1755 Arrived in West Indies 1756 Purchased by Lt. Pascal of the British Royal Navy as a gift for friends. Sees white people reading and becomes curious about books. 1757 Arived in Falmouth, England. Lived with a woman as her slave and was instructed in reading and writing. 1757-62 Was a slave onboard ships. 1763-67 Was a slave in the West Indies. 1766 Purchased freedom for 40 pounds at age 21. Stayed on as an employee of his master, but planned move to England. 1767 Purchased ticket to England. Worked as a hairdresser, but found his income lacking and returned to the shipping industry. Visited Turkey, Greece and Italy.
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Equiano Main Page May the time come . . . when the sable people shall gratefully commemorate the auspiciousera of extensive freedom. . The Interesting Life of olaudah equiano. . http://www.princeton.edu/~howarth/304.Projects/Erera/Pages/Main.htm
Extractions: of Olaudah Equiano . . . African, slave, sailor, writer, Englishman, Christian, abolitionist Olaudah Equiano[o-lah- oo -day ek-wee- ah -no], called Gustavus Vassa by his white masters, became a legend through his words. In 1788 England published his autobiographical work, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African , which set the precedent for anti-slavery literature written by former slaves themselves, which would have a profound impact on the abolition movements in the eighteenth century. Born in 1745 in a small village in modern-day Nigeria, Equiano would travel far before his death in 1797. African slave traders tore him from his family when he was eleven. Thus began a series of worldly experiences not matched by many of the most cosmopolitan people let alone of an oppressed young black man. Equiano offers unique perspective not found in the later works of African-American freedmen, like Frederick Douglass, for he remembers his native Arican community before enslavement. Equiano writes of his struggle to assimilate to the many cultures he became a part of, often by force: as Ibo, slave, sailor, Englishman, and Christian. His vivid descriptions and faithful telling of tales allow readers to relate closely to the troubled spirit of one man attempting to forge identity and gain self-empowerment in an adverse world.
Equiano Timeline olaudah equiano Timeline. 1745 olaudah equiano born in Isseke, Nigeria. 1756Kidnapped by Aro peoples and is sold to various masters within Africa. http://www.princeton.edu/~howarth/304.Projects/Erera/Pages/Timeline.htm
Extractions: Olaudah Equiano Timeline Olaudah Equiano born in Isseke, Nigeria. Kidnapped by Aro peoples and is sold to various masters within Africa. Then endures the Middle Passage to Barbados and is sent to Virginia. Bought by British Naval Officer Michael Henry Pascal and is named Gustavus Vassa. Takes first trip to England. Serves the British navy during the Seven Years War (French and Indian War). Baptized at St. Margarets Church, London. In Savannah, hears famous evangelist George Whitefield. Equiano sold to Robert King in Montserrat. Works on trading ships between the West Indies and the mainland American colonies. Through practicing his own trade on the side, Equiano acquires enough money to buy his own freedom. Completing one last mission for his old master, Equiano is shipwrecked in the Bahamas. Sails for London. Sails to Italy and Turkey. Slave uprising on Montserrat. Granville Sharp gets the Somerset decision, declaring that slavery cannot exist in England and slaves setting foot there are free. Equiano on expedition to find an Arctic passage to India. Massachusetts slaves petition successfully for emancipation.
The San Antonio College LitWeb Olaudah Equiano Page The olaudah equiano Page ( 17451797 ) Major Work olaudah's Interesting Narrative,( England, 1789 ; America , 1791 ). olaudah equiano from D. Campbell. http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/equiano.htm
Olaudah Equiano - Abolitionist Abolitionists olaudah equiano. olaudah equiano book!! The life of olaudahequiano, ed Paul Edwards, (EssexLongman GroupUK, 1989. Staying http://www.blackpresence.co.uk/html/equiano.htm
Extractions: O laudah Equiano, later to be known as (Gustavus Vassa) was born in what is Today Nigeria, kidnapped from his African village at the age of eleven, and sold to a Virginia planter. He was later bought by a British naval Officer, Captain Pascal, as a present for his cousins in London. Equiano bought his freedom after ten years of enslavement throughout the North American continent, where he assisted his merchant slave master and worked as a seaman. At the age of forty four he wrote and published his autobiography,
Olaudah Equiano Cora Agatucci. 6 October 1998. olaudah equiano (17451797) Shorts Cutsthis webpage 1789 The Interesting Narrative of the Life . . . http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/coursepack/Equiano.htm
Extractions: The Modern Importance More WWW Links The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustava Vassa , is one of the first slave narratives published in English. Kidnapped as a child from the Benin region of Nigeria and shipped to the United States as a slave, Olaudah Equiano (ethnicity Igbo; AKA: Ibo) wrote his autobiography, as a free man in Great Britain under the pseudonym of Gustavus Vassa. Equiano offers a defense of Africa from an African perspective on cross-cultural relations with Europe, explaining how African systems of servitude differ from the chattel slavery of the Europeans. These and other slave narratives fueled the growing Abolitionist movement in Europe and the U.S. Portrait of Olaudah Equiano (British Library: African Collection):
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