| WERNER SOLLORS is Henry B. and Anne M. Cabot Professor of English Literature and Afro-American Studies and Chair of History of American Civilization at Harvard University. He
previously taught at Columbia University, the Free University of Berlin, and the Universit~ degli Studi di Venezia. Heis the author of Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature; Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture; and Amiri Baraka LeRoi [ones: The Quest for a opuhst Modernism. His edited works include The Multilingual Anthology of American Literature: A Reader of Original Texts with English Trans lations; Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of America; The Return of Thematic Criticism; Theories of Ethnicity: A Classical Reader; and The Invention of Ethnicity. |
| Introduction Acknowledgments The Text of The Interesting Narrative of theLife of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself MAP: Equiano's World Title page Frontispiece List of Subscribers Contents of Volumes I and II The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself NOTE ON THE TEXT SELECTED VARIANTS Additions Selected Textual Differences between the First and Ninth Editions Contexts ILLUSTRATION: Nautical Terms RELATED PUBLIC WRITINGS James Tobin·From Cursory Remarks [upon James Ramsay's Antislavery Writing] (178~) Gustavus Vassa·Letter to James Tobin (January 28, 1788) Samuel Jackson Pratt·From Humanity; or, the Rights of Nature (1788) Gustavus Vassa·Letter to the Author of the Poem on Humanity (June 27, 1788) ILLUSTRATION: "Description of a Slave Ship" Gustavus Vassa·Letter to the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (February 14, 1789) GENERAL BACKGROUND Jean-Jacques Rousseau·From A Discourse upon the Origin and Foundation of the Inequality among Mankind (a755, transl. 1761) HISTORICAL BACKCROUND Eva Beatrice Dykes·[Humanitarianism, John Wesley, and Gustavus Vassal Wylie Sypher·[The Nature of the Protest] Charles H. Nichols·From Many Thousand Gone: The Ex-Slaves' Account of Their Bondage and Freedom Nathan I. Huggins·[The Rupture and the Ordeal] David Dabydeen·Eighteenth-Century English Literature on Commerce and Slavery ILLUSTRATIONS: I. Cruikshank, William Blake, and Anonymous TRAVEL AND SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE Anthony Benezet·From Some Historical Account of Guinea (1771) John Matthews·From A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone 0788) John Mitchell·From Essay on the Causes of the Different Colours of People in Different Climates (1744) EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY AUTHORS OF AFRICAN ANCESTRY James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw·[From A Narrative] (177o, 1774) John Marrant·[A Captive of the Cherokees] (1785) Quobna Ottobah Cugoano·[Reflections and Memories] (1787) THE ENGLISH DEBATE ABOUT THE SLAVE TRADE Thomas Clarkson·From An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (1786) John Wesley·Letter to William Wilberforce Commenting on Gustavus Vassa (February 24, 1791) William Wilberforce·From Speech in the House of Commons (May a3, 1789) From The 1791 Debate in the House of Commons on the Abolition of the Slave Trade ANTISLAVERY VEIRSE Thomas Day and John Bicknell·From The Dying Negro (1773) Criticism |
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