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Equiano, the African : biography of a self-made man / Vincent Carretta.

Carretta, Vincent.
2006
HT869.E6 C37 2006 (Mapit)
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Title
Equiano, the African : biography of a self-made man / Vincent Carretta.
Author
Carretta, Vincent.
ISBN
9780143038429 (pbk.)
0143038427 (pbk.)
Published
New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2006.
Language
English
Description
xxiv, 436 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Call Number
HT869.E6 C37 2006
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3/62092
Summary
This biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?-97), who in his day was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent. It is filled with fresh revelations - most notably that Equiano may have been born not in Africa, as he claimed, but in South Carolina.
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"First published in the United States by the University of Georgia Press 2005"--T.p. verso.
This biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?-97), who in his day was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent. It is filled with fresh revelations - most notably that Equiano may have been born not in Africa, as he claimed, but in South Carolina.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-418) and index.
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Equiano's Africa
The Middle Passage
At sea
Freedom denied
Bearing witness
Freedom of a sort
Toward the North Pole
Born again
Seeking a mission
The Black poor
Turning against the slave trade
Making a life
The art of the book
A self-made man.

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