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Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) olaudah equiano (Gustavus Vassa) (c. 17451797). American Literature Sites Foley Library Catalog olaudah equiano. Site with links http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/equiano.htm
Extractions: The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African Dialogues Notes Links Teaching ... Citations In 1789, in England, freed slave and abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African. This autobiography became the prototype for the genre of the slave narrative, and was the beginning of the canon of African literature in English. TIMELINE 1745 Equiano born in West Africa 1755 Captured and sold into slavery 1755 Arrived in West Indies 1756 Purchased by Lt. Pascal of the British Royal Navy as a gift for friends. Sees white people reading and becomes curious about books. 1757 Arived in Falmouth, England. Lived with a woman as her slave and was instructed in reading and writing. 1757-62 Was a slave onboard ships. 1763-67 Was a slave in the West Indies. 1766 Purchased freedom for 40 pounds at age 21. Stayed on as an employee of his master, but planned move to England. 1767 Purchased ticket to England. Worked as a hairdresser, but found his income lacking and returned to the shipping industry. Visited Turkey, Greece and Italy.
Digital History African American Voices. Title, Author, olaudah equiano. Annotation, olaudah equiano, an Ibo from Nigeria, was just 11 years old when he was kidnapped into slavery. http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=33
Digital History Title, Author, olaudah equiano. Source The Interesting Narrative of the Life of olaudah equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African (London, 1789). http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=37
Slave Trade As Root To African Crisis and takes many captives, whom we buy at twelve or fifteen brass bracelets each, or for copper bracelets, which they prize more. olaudah equiano, an exslave http://www.afbis.com/analysis/slave.htm
Extractions: Slave trade: a root of contemporary African Crisis By Tunde Obadina "The past is what makes the present coherent," said Afro-American writer James Baldwin, and the past "will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly." Why go back five centuries to start an explanation of Africa's crisis in the late 1990s? Must every story of Africa's political and economic under-development begin with the contact with Europe? The intention is not to produce another nationalist tract on how whites, driven by lust for material possession and armed with firearms, gin and a bag full of tricks, subjugated innocent Africans who were living blissfully close to nature. The reason for looking back is that the root of the crisis facing African societies is their failure to come to terms with the consequences of that contact. Portuguese seamen first landed in Africa in the fourth decade of the fifteenth century. From the outset they seized Africans and shipped them to Europe. In 1441 ten Africans were kidnapped from the Guinea coast and taken to Portugal as gifts to Prince Henry the Navigator. In subsequent expeditions to the West African coast, inhabitants were taken and shipped to Portugal to be sold as servants and objects of curiosity to households. In the Portuguese port of Lagos, where the first African slaves landed in 1442, the old slave market now serves as an art gallery. Portuguese adventurers who sailed southeast along the Gulf of Guinea in 1472 landed on the coast of what became Nigeria. Others followed. They found people of varying cultures. Some lived in towns ruled by kings with nobility and courtiers, very much like the medieval societies they left behind them. A Dutch visitor to Benin City wrote in around 1600: "As you enter it, the town appears very great. You go into a great broad street, not paved, which seems to be seven or eight times broader than the Warmoes Street in Amsterdam...The houses in this town stand in good order, one close and even with the other, as the houses in Holland stand..." More than a century earlier Benin exchanged ambassadors with Portugal. But not all African societies were as developed. Some enjoyed village existence in primeval forests remote from outside influences.
Equianno olaudah equiano. olaudah INVESTIGATE? Further Reading The life of olaudah equiano, ed Paul Edwards, (EssexLongman GroupUK, 1989. Staying http://www.blacknet.co.uk/history/Equiano.html
Extractions: O laudah Equiano, later to be known as (Gustavus Vassa) was born in what is Today Nigeria, kidnapped from his African village at the age of eleven, and sold to a Virginia planter. He was later bought by a British naval Officer, Captain Pascal, as a present for his cousins in London. Equiano bought his freedom after ten years of enslavement throughout the North American continent, where he assisted his merchant slave master and worked as a seaman, At the age of forty four he wrote and published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Written by Himself, which he registered at Stationer's Hall, London, in 1789. More than two centuries later, this work is recognised not only as one of the first works Published in England by an African. Equiano recalls his childhood in Essaka, where he was adorned in the tradition of the "greatest warriors." He is unique in his recollection of traditional African life before the advent of the European slave trade. Equiano was extremely well travelled for his time. He not only travelled throughout the Americas, Turkey and the Mediterranean; but also participated in major naval battles during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), as well as in the search for a Northwest passage led by the Philips expedition of 1772-1773. Equiano also records his central role, along with
100 Great Black Britons - Olaudah Equiano olaudah equiano. Black Britain s political founding father. A Bibliography. The Life of olaudah equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Portcities. http://www.100greatblackbritons.com/bios/olaudah_equiano.html
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Understanding Slavery: DiscoverySchool.com One who did was an African named olaudah equiano. He again. Explore the remarkable life of olaudah equiano through his own words. http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/slavery/equiano.html
Extractions: Millions of Africans were transported across the Atlantic and sold into slavery in the Americas. Very few had the chance to describe their experience to the world. One who did was an African named Olaudah Equiano. He was of the Ibo people and lived in the kingdom of Benin (present-day Nigeria). He wrote an amazing autobiography that described his life's journey from freedom to slavery and back to freedom again. Explore the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano through his own words.
Extractions: Olaudah Equiano and his sister were kidnapped in Africa, in what is present-day Nigeria. The eleven-year-old Equiano was later separated from his sister and placed aboard a slave ship that sailed across the Atlantic on the Middle Passage, the deadly link on Great Britains lucrative commercial route in the eighteenth century. Trading vessels laden with weapons and cotton products sailed from British ports to purchase slaves in Africa. The human cargo was taken across the ocean and sold to estate owners in the Americas in exchange for rum and sugar. The ships then sailed back to England and repeated the three-part voyage.
Olaudah Equiano olaudah equiano. Gustavus Vassa abolitionist, writer Born c. 1745 Birthplace present day Nigeria Related content from HighBeam Research on olaudah equiano. http://www.infoplease.com/cgi-bin/id/A0878502.html
Extractions: Biography Olaudah Equiano Gustavus Vassa abolitionist, writer Born: c. 1745 Birthplace: present day Nigeria An Igbo, Equiano was captured and sold into slavery as a child. He was taken to the West Indies where his slave name became Gustavus, after a 16th century Swedish king. Taught to read and write, he was able to purchase his own freedom. Equiano made his way to London, where he worked briefly in a government office helping resettle blacks in Africa, probably making him the first black British civil servant. In 1789, he published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African, which had a strong abolitionist message. Though some critics called it propaganda, the book was a financial success. In 1792, Equiano married an Englishwoman, Susanna Cullen. They had two daughters. Died: c. 1800
Extractions: Bought by Michael Henry Pascal of the Royal Navy as a present for his friends. Saw people reading on board the ship 'I had often seen my master reading and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books as I thought he did. For that purpose I have often taken up a book and have talked to it and then put my ears to it, when alone, in hopes that it would answer me; and I have been very much concerned when I found it remained silent.'
Neue Seite 1 olaudah equiano. olaudah equiano and the book he wrote, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of olaudah equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/equiana.htm
Extractions: Olaudah Equiano and the book he wrote, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself , are both remarkable. The author was born in 1745 as the son of a titled village elder in Essaka, Igboland, in what is today (northeastern) Nigeria. Abducted as an eleven-year-old and sold as a slave, he spent ten years in slavery before he managed to buy his freedom. Continuing, as a free man, the life of a seafarer, he traveled widely across the Atlantic and its adjacent seas. The autobiography Equiano wrote and first published in 1789 was a commercial success in its time and exercised a lasting influence on the genre. Olaudah Equiano is included in this web site focusing on American roads precisely for the questions he raises about an alleged Americannessand of course, because he is a forerunner and an important role model as an autobiographer. A chronological survey
Extractions: Edited with an Introduction by Robert J. Allison In the nineteenth century, Frederick Douglass won international recognition with the publication of his first memoir, through which he sought to generate abolitionist convictions in his readers by detailing the horrors of slavery. However, in using the "slave narrative" to further the cause of freedom, Douglass followed a precedent established in 1789, with the appearance of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano . Born in an Ibo village in Nigeria, Equiano was kidnapped as a child and sold into slavery, a condition he endured for a decade; he managed to purchase his freedom in 1766. During and after his years as a bondman, Equiano most frequently worked as a seaman, plying the trade routes of the Atlantic and serving in the British navy during the Seven Years War. Because these activities brought Equiano into contact with diverse societies, his Interesting Narrative provides readers with firsthand impressions of the closely related phenomena of eighteenth-century slavery and the expansion of international commerce.
African Collections The Life of olaudah equiano. Extract from The Interesting Narrative of The Life of olaudah equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Written by Himself. http://www.bl.uk/collections/africanolaudah.html
Extractions: Vol. 1, Chapter 1, pages 4-38. As our manners are simple, our luxuries are few. The dress of both sexes is nearly the same. It generally consists of a long piece of callico, or muslin, wrapped loosely round the body, somewhat in the form of a highland plaid. This is usually dyed blue, which is our favourite colour. It is extracted from a berry, and is brighter and richer than any I have seen in Europe. Besides this, our women of distinction wear golden ornaments; which they dispose with some profusion on their arms and legs. When our women are not employed with the men in tillage, their usual occupation is spinning and weaving cotton, which they afterwards dye, and make it into garments. They also manufacture earthen vessels, of which we have many kinds. Among the rest tobacco pipes, made after the same fashion, and used in the same manner, as those in Turkey. We practised circumcision like the Jews, and made offerings and feasts on that occasion in the same manner as they did. Like them also, our children were named from some event; some circumstance, or fancied foreboding at the time of their birth. I was named Olaudah, which, in our language, signifies vicissitude or fortune also; one favoured, and having a loud voice and well spoken. I remember we never polluted the name of the object of our adoration; on the contrary, it was always mentioned with the greatest reverence; and we were totally unacquainted with swearing, and all those terms of abuse and reproach which find their way so readily and copiously into the languages of more civilized people. The only expressions of that kind I remember were ' May you rot, or may you swell, or may a beast take you.'
African Collections collections. Works from the eighteenth century include those of olaudah equiano, Ignatius Sancho, Ottabah Cugoano and Ukawsaw Gronniosaw. http://www.bl.uk/collections/africanprinted1.html
Extractions: Reference services and inter-library loans European publishing about Africa began in the sixteenth century. Many of the significant works of the early period came into the former British Museum Library with two of its 'foundation' collections, the libraries of George III and Sir Joseph Banks, together with a substantial number of pamphlets concerning trade and the Royal Africa Company which were once the property of Sir Hans Sloane. Other important titles were acquired retrospectively. The first edition (1550) of Leo Africanus' Descrittione dell'Africa ..., for example, was not purchased until 1848. Image Leo Africanus, Descrittione dell'Africa
Black Peoples Of America - Olaudah Equiano An abridged version of the Interesting narrative of olaudah equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African. Black Peoples of America. olaudah equiano. http://www.historyonthenet.com/Slave_Trade/olaudah_equiano.htm
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Olaudah Equiano - Quick Quiz Black Peoples of America. olaudah equiano Quick Quiz. 10. olaudah equiano joined the slave abolitionists in England. Read about olaudah equiano. http://www.historyonthenet.com/Slave_Trade/olaudahequianoquickquiz.htm
