Preface

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

1. Letters and Reviews Added to Later Editions of The Interesting Narrative

2. Reviews of The Interesting Narrative Not Included in Equiano's Editions

i. The Analytical Review, May 1789

ii. The Gentleman's Magazine, June 1789

iii. The Oracle, 25 April, 1792

iv. The Star, 27 April, 1792

Appendix B: Writings of the First Abolitionist Movement

1. A Caution to Great Britain and her Colonies (1766)

Anthony Benezet

2. Some Historical Account of Guinea (1771)

Anthony Benezet

3. An Account of the European Settlements in America (1758)

Edmund Burke

4. An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (1788)

Thomas Clarkson

5. ``The Negro's Complaint'' (1788)

William Cowper

6. Letters from an American Farmer (1782)

J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

7. Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano

8. An Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa (1788)

Alexander Falconbridge

9. An Answer to the Rev. Mr. Clarkson's Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African (1789)

Gilbert Francklyn

10. ``On the Slave Trade'' (1790)

Benjamin Franklin

11. A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw (1772)

James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw

12. Scriptural Researches on the Licitness of the Salve-Trade (1788)

Raymund Harris

13. ``Of National Characters'' (1753-54)

David Hume

14. Notes on the State of Virginia (1787)

Thomas Jefferson

15. A Narrative of the Lord's Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (1785)

John Marrant

16. Thoughts upon the African Slave Trade (1788)

John Newton

17. Britain's Commercial Interest Explained and Improved (1757)

Malachy Postlethwayt

18. An Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Salves in the British Sugar Colonies (1784)

James Ramsay

19. A Vindication of the Address, to the Inhabitants of the British Settlements, on the Slavery of the Negroes in America (1773)

Benjamin Rush

20. Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho (1782)

Ignatius Sancho

21. A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery (1769)

Granville Sharp

22. Cursory Remarks upon the Reverend Mr. Ramsay's Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves in the Sugar Colonies (1785)

James Tobin

23. An Apology for Negro Slavery (1786)

Gordon Turnbull

24. Thoughts upon Slavery (1774)

John Wesley

25. The Speech of William Wilberforce...on the Question of the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1789)

William Wilberforce

26. ``A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade'' (1788)

Helen Maria Williams

27. A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)

Mary Wollstonecraft

28. Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754)

John Woolman

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