ISBN:
9780307432322
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (222 pages)
Series Statement:
Modern Library Classics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.5/67/092 B
Keywords:
Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797..
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Slaves--Great Britain--Biography..
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Slaves--United States--Biography
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Edited and with Notes by Shelly EversleyIntroduction by Robert Reid-PharrIn this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative "is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence," writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. "He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic."The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the author's final changes to his masterwork.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Abstract:
Intro -- TITLE PAGE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- A NOTE ON THE TEXT -- TO THE READER -- LIST OF ENGLISH SUBSCRIBERS. -- LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS IN IRELAND. -- LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS IN SCOTLAND. -- INTRODUCTION -- THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO -- CHAPTER I -- CHAPTER II -- CHAPTER III -- CHAPTER IV -- CHAPTER V -- CHAPTER VI -- CHAPTER VII -- CHAPTER VIII -- CHAPTER IX -- CHAPTER X -- CHAPTER XI -- CHAPTER XII -- NOTES -- ABOUT THE EDITOR -- THE MODERN LIBRARY EDITORIAL BOARD -- COPYRIGHT PAGE.
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