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Acknowledgements Introduction Olaudah Equiano: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself.
Appendix A: Letters and Reviews
- Letters and Reviews Added to Later Editions of The Interesting Narrative
- Reviews of The Interesting Narrative Not Included in Equiano’s Editions
- The Analytical Review, May 1789
- The Gentleman’s Magazine, June 1789
- The Oracle, 25 April, 1792
- The Star, 27 April, 1792
Appendix B: Writings of the First Abolitionist Movement
- Anthony Benezet, A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies (1766)
- Anthony Benezet, Some Historical Account of Guinea (1771)
- Edmund Burke, An Account of the European Settlements in America (1758)
- Thomas Clarkson, An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (1788)
- William Cowper,“The Negro’s Complaint” (1788)
- J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer (1782)
- Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)
- Alexander Falconbridge, An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788)
- Gilbert Francklyn, An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Clarkson’s Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the African (1789)
- Benjamin Franklin, “On the Slave Trade” (1790)
- James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772)
- Raymund Harris, Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Slave-Trade (1788)
- David Hume,“Of National Characters” (1753-54)
- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)
- John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (1785)
- John Newton, Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788)
- Malachy Postlethwayt, Britain’s Commercial Interest Explained and Improved (1757)
- James Ramsay, An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the British Sugar Colonies (1784)
- Benjamin Rush, A Vindication of the Address, to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements, on the Slavery of the Negroes in America (1773)
- Ignatius Sancho, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho (1782)
- Granville Sharp, A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery (1769)
- James Tobin, Cursory Remarks upon the Reverend Mr. Ramsay’s Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the Sugar Colonies (1785)
- Gordon Turnbull, An Apology for Negro Slavery (1786)
- John Wesley, Thoughts upon Slavery (1774)
- William Wilberforce, The Speech of William Wilberforce … on the Question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789)
- Helen Maria Williams, “A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade” (1788)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
- John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754
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