click image for close-up This portrait of Olaudah Equiano was used as the frontispiece (illustration opposite a book's title page) of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ...

National Park Service staff marked 10 books sold at gift shops in the Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie and Charles Pinckney historic sites for content review.

As recounted by the fantastic TikTok account @VintageinColor, Nigerian writer Olaudah Equiano left behind a frank account of ...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano first appeared in London in 1789 and went through nine editions, one of them in New York, over the next six years. The stark account given ...

An image of Olaudah Equiano featured in the frontispiece of his memoir. Wikimedia Commons There is a painting in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in England that tends to make onlookers stop.

London : Printed for and sold by the author, No. 20, Union-Street, Middlesex Hospital; sold also by Mr. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mr. Murray, Fleet-Street ...

Equiano’s 1789 “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself,” which is sometimes considered the forebear of narratives on ...

Subject Equiano, Olaudah 1745- Notes AFA copy 39088019751270 is a gift from Janet Stanley. Contents Introduction -- Chapter I. Legal records -- Chapter II. Correspondence -- Chapter III. Newspapers -- ...

Of late, much scholarship on Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative has focused either on the meaning of Equiano's Christianity in postcolonial terms or the debate over Equiano's actual place of ...

There, he married an English woman and wrote an influential autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, which was republished in nine editions and helped push for the ...

The project goal: ID every person enslaved before 1865 in the present-day U.S. ABC News reporter Alex Presha sits down with "10 Million Names" historians Dr. Kendra Field and Dr. Vincent Brown to ...