Equiano, African. Self made man

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Olauda Equiano (c. 1745-1797) was born a slave, managed to redeem himself from captivity, became a sailor and merchant, experienced many adventures on land and at sea, participated in the Seven Years' War and the polar expedition, in addition, he was a barber, servant, overseer on a plantation and government commissioner. He devoted the last part of his life to the struggle for the abolition of slavery, and then his famous “Amazing story about the life of Olauda Equiano, or Gustav Vasa, an African, written by himself” appeared. The book made him the first black English-language writer and made a tremendous impression on his contemporaries, going through eight reprints in just five years, an unprecedented event for that era.
Against the backdrop of Equiano's life path, Vincent Carretta tells about the daily life of Britain and the West Indian colonies of the second half of the XNUMXth century - on military and merchant ships, on slave plantations and on an Arctic expedition; writes about book publishing and journalism, about religious strife in England and the intricacies of European politics; about the birth of the struggle against slavery and heated debates in the British Parliament and in the press.

Barcode: 9785001656784 SKU: 70173611 Categories: ,
Publication language: Russian

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