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Introduction | ix | |
Acknowledgments | xxxiii | |
Map: Equiano's World | 2 | |
Title page | 5 | |
Frontispiece | 6 | |
List of Subscribers | 8 | |
Contents of Volumes I and II | 16 | |
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself | 19 | |
Note on the Text | 179 | |
Selected Variants | 181 | |
Additions | 181 | |
Selected Textual Differences between the First and Ninth Editions | 189 | |
Contexts | ||
Illustration: Nautical Terms | 193 | |
Related Public Writings | ||
From Cursory Remarks [upon James Ramsay's Antislavery Writing] (1785) | 195 | |
Letter to James Tobin (January 28, 1788) | 196 | |
From Humanity; or, the Rights of Nature (1788) | 199 | |
Letter to the Author of the Poem on Humanity (June 27, 1788) | 203 | |
Illustration: "Description of a Slave Ship" | 204 | |
Letter to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (February 14, 1789) | 205 | |
General Background | ||
From A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind (1755, transl. 1761) | 206 | |
Historical Background | ||
[Humanitarianism, John Wesley, and Gustavus Vassa] | 210 | |
[The Nature of the Protest] | 216 | |
From Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves' Account of Their Bondage and Freedom | 217 | |
[The Rupture and the Ordeal] | 222 | |
Eighteenth-Century English Literature on Commerce and Slavery | 228 | |
Illustrations: I. Cruikshank, William Blake, and Anonymous | 242 | |
Travel and Scientific Literature | ||
From Some Historical Account of Guinea (1771) | 250 | |
From A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone (1788) | 253 | |
From Essay on the Causes of the Different Colours of People in Different Climates (1744) | 256 | |
Eighteenth-Century Authors of African Ancestry | ||
[From A Narrative] (1770, 1774) | 259 | |
[A Captive of the Cherokees] (1785) | 265 | |
[Reflections and Memories] (1787) | 269 | |
The English Debate About the Slave Trade | ||
From An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (1786) | 277 | |
Letter to William Wilberforce Commenting on Gustavus Vassa (February 24, 1791) | 281 | |
From Speech in the House of Commons (May 13, 1789) | 282 | |
From The 1791 Debate in the House of Commons on the Abolition of the Slave Trade | 283 | |
Antislavery Verse | ||
From The Dying Negro (1773) | 288 | |
Criticism | ||
Early Reviews and Assessments | ||
From the Monthly Review (1789) | 295 | |
From General Magazine and Impartial Review (1789) | 296 | |
"W." [May Wollstonecraft] [Review of The Interesting Narrative] (1789) | 296 | |
From Gentleman's Magazine (1789) | 297 | |
Vassa (1808) | 298 | |
[Olaudah Equiano] (1833) | 301 | |
Modern Criticism | ||
From Introduction to The Life of Olaudah Equiano | 302 | |
From The Slave Narrative: First Major Art Form in an Emerging Black Tradition | 338 | |
From Figurations for a New American Literary History | 339 | |
From The Spiritual Autobiography and Slave Narrative of Olaudah Equiano | 348 | |
The Home of Olaudah Equiano--A Linguistic and Anthropological Search | 351 | |
From The Trope of the Talking Book | 361 | |
Olaudah Equiano, Accidental Tourist | 368 | |
From Olaudah Equiano and the Art of Spiritual Autobiography | 382 | |
Equiano's Narrative as an Abolitionist Tool | 393 | |
Olaudah Equiano: A Chronology | 397 | |
Selected Bibliography | 401 |
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