Equiano, Olaudah
c. 1745
Nigeria, Africa
1797
England
Freedman, sailor, author, and abolitionist
Portrait: Olaudah Equiano. Reproduced by permission of the New York Historical Society.
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CHAPTER I.
The author’s account of his
country, and their manners and customs—Administration
of justice—Embrenche—Marriage
ceremony, and public entertainments&md...
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Biography EssayThe wide range of eighteenth and nineteenth-century slave narratives—Anglo-African, French, Caribbean, North and South American, and Cuban—maps a long, diverse journey from...
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Olaudah Equiano (1745-ca. 1801) was an African slave, freedman, and author who wrote the first outstanding autobiography in slave narrative literature.Olaudah Equiano was born at Essaka, an Ibo villag...
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Before the Civil War era, the most influential African abolitionist writer in both America and Britain was Olaudah Equiano. Kidnapped from his native Africa as an adolescent, and pressed into various ...
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The slave narrative, a genre the genesis of which can be dated from the early seventeenth century, is primarily associated with the biographical and autobiographical sketches of former North American ...
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In the following essay, Samuels contends that Olaudah Equiano's intention in his Narrative, which is to point out the miseries of the slave trade, is enhanced by the use of a disguised voice, t...
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Olaudah Equiano's "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" is one of the most influential slave narratives to present day society. As one of the first widely read accounts of the s...
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Equiano, Olaudah
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African
Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano
Critical Essay by Wilfred D. Samuels
Credible and Conscience: Equiano's Effective Narrative
