Available in PDF, epub, and Kindle ebook. Connect. download 1 file . The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano . SINGLE PAGE ORIGINAL JP2 TAR download. 10, Union-Street, Middlesex-Hospital. of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano Several early editions of The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano were published with the poems of Phillis Wheatley, another former slave. Description. Get also books in EPUB and Mobi Format. Olaudah Equiano led a remarkable life by the standards of any age. Check out other translated books in French, Spanish … (title page) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. The fi rst object that saluted my eyes when I … Separated from his sister, Equiano was taken first to the West Indies, then to Virginia, where he was pur- chased by a British captain and employed at sea. Wheatley and Equiano are among the earliest writers in a … Writing as a former slave in the 1700s, Equiano left powerful testimony on the brutality of enslavement that became the model for a new genre, the slave narrative. Equiano, a cultural hybrid, has two major The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written By Himself, is one of the earliest and most widely published slave narratives. The life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Item Preview ... Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-Publication date 1837 Publisher Boston, I. Knapp Collection ... PDF download. His Interesting Narrative is a spiritual autobiography, captivity narrative, travel book, adventure tale, slavery narrative, Vol. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa Olaudah Equiano. The National Library of Jamaica – Explore. It is an abolitionist text as well as a conversion narrative. I have reconstructed Equiano’s dedicated venture Written by Himself. Download The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African (Modern Library Classics) and read The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African (Modern Library Classics) online books in format PDF. Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa [2], 255 p. LONDON: Printed for and sold by the AUTHOR, No. This book has 182 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1789. From Olaudah Equiano, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African,” in Henry Louis Gates, ed., The Classic Slave Narratives (New York: Mentor, 1987), pp. UNDERSTANDING Gustavus Vassa, or Olaudah Equiano, was the first successful professional author of African descent in the English-speaking world. 32-37. Discover. II. Recovering this chapter of Equiano’s life illuminates not just his career but also, more pervasively, the shapes that cultural work took under the repressions that gagged the 1426 The other interesting narrative: olaudah equiano’s Public book Tour [ PM L A. publishing industry across the 1790s. Life of Olaudah Equiano Olaudah Equiano (1745—1797) was eleven years old when he and his sister were kidnapped from their home in West Africa and sold to British slave traders.