The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Gustavus Vassa the African (eBook)

Olaudah Equiano (Autor)

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2023
185 Seiten
e-artnow (Verlag)
406-633957552-3 (EAN)

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"The Life of Olaudah Equiano" is one of the earliest-known examples of published writing by an African writer and the first influential slave narrative of what became a large literary genre. Equiano's autobiography helped in the creation of the Slave Trade Act 1807 which ended the African slave trade for Britain and its colonies. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa was a freed slave of Igbo extraction from the eastern part of present-day Nigeria, who supported the British movement to end the slave trade.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2023
• Verlagsort: Prague
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Neuzeit bis 1918
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Schlagworte: 18th-century autobiography • activist literature • African Igbo author • African slave narrative • anti-slavery activism • Black History Month • British Abolition Movement • British Colonial History • Civil War • Dreams From My Father • Freedom Seeker • Historical cultural significance • Long Walk to Freedom • Malcolm X • Martin Luther King • Narrative of slavery • Obama • oprah • The New Jim Crow • The Underground Railroad