... slavery autobiography individualism Olaudah Equiano transatlantic ...

... Frantz Fanon Olaudah Equiano fugitivity black beyond black studies ...

... Olaudah Equiano Immanuel Kant Peter Kolb Black Poor scientific theory of race ...

... freedom race African Colonization Society Olaudah Equiano Phillis Wheatley Edward Wilmont Blyden ...

... scope and its relation to recent black studies thought and discourse. The introduction then discusses the question of antecedents, the representations and modes of thought that precede and make possible this book’s focus. Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789...

... This chapter discusses the autobiographical genre as an illustration of the aesthetic narration of liberal emancipation, focusing on The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), the first autobiography in English by an enslaved African, in which the self-authoring...

... This chapter locates a historical happenstance: Olaudah Equiano and Immanuel Kant comment publicly on the same passage from James Tobin's proslavery tract in January and February 1788. This chapter places Kant's “scientific” theory of race and Equiano's abolitionism over and against changes...

... This chapter traces a genealogy of the two predominant interpretations of African colonization—the anti-imperialist interpretation and the return-to-Africa interpretation—to the late eighteenth-century writings of Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano. It argues that African colonization...

... and Olaudah Equiano. It argues that African colonization was, at its black diasporan foundations, a site of more equivocal thought about how to live a free life in the Atlantic world than either interpretation grants. It then turns to the epistolary archive of common black settlers in order to show how...