The Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Equiano, Olaudah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 048640661X ISBN 13: 9780486406619

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2000

Synopsis

Compelling work traces the formidable journey of an Igbo prince from captivity to freedom and literacy and recounts his enslavement in the New World, service in the Seven Years War, voyages to the Arctic, six months among the Miskito Indians in Central America, and more.

About this title

About the Author:

First African and then Western slave traders brought his Edenic childhood experiences to an end. Kidnapped, he was taken away from the womb-like Gemeinshaft and his father's compound in which he had been favored and nurtured. Commodified, he was placed in the hold of a slave ship for the brutal journey through the Middle Passage to the 'New World,' where the ultimate symbol of his status were the various names he was given by slave masters whose 'ownership' of him empowered them to desecrate his name.

Synopsis:

First published in 1789, and originally titled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, this tells the astonishing true life story of a slave who eventually secured Anglican freedom via African freedom and European enslavement.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 048640661X
• ISBN 13: 9780486406619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192