Olaudah Equiano

In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement,...

Preface This book is a comprehensive collection of Afro-American literature from the eighteenth-century beginnings to the present time. Recognizing the limitations of a narrowly esthetic approach to a body of writing of great social import, we have provided generous selections of...