The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a prominent African in late 18th-century Britain, is quoted, anthologized and interpreted in dozens of books and articles. More than any single contemporary, Equiano speaks for the fate of millions of Africans in the era of the transatlantic slave trade. This study attempts to create a rounded portrait of the man behind the literary image, and to study Equiano in the context of Atlantic slavery.
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"Walvin writes in a wonderfully easy style. The book grabs your attention, not only because of the intrinsic interest of Equiano's life, but because of all that Walvin tells us of the context."
- Marika Sherwood, Black and Asian Studies Association --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
- Marika Sherwood, Black and Asian Studies Association --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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James Walvin taught for many years at the University of York where he is now Professor of History Emeritus. He also held visiting positions in the Caribbean, the U.S.A. and Australia. He won the prestigious Martin Luther King Memorial Prize for his book Black and White, and has published widely on the history of slavery and the slave trade, including more recently Black Ivory and A History of British Slavery. His book The People's Game was a pioneering study of the history of football and remains in print thirty years after its first publication. His latest book, The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery, will be published by Random House UK in March 2008.
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- Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention (Cambridge Studies in International Relations) by Neta C. Crawford on page 177, page 179, and Back Matter
- The Slavery Reader (Routledge Readers in History) by Gad Heuman on page 363, and page 550
- Black Puritan, Black Republican: The Life and Thought of Lemuel Haynes, 1753-1833 (Religion in America Life) by John Saillant in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Literatures of Colonial America: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies) by Susan Castillo on page 547
- Foul Means: The Formation of a Slave Society in Virginia, 1660-1740 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) by Anthony S. Parent Jr. on page 228
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