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  • The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

    Revised Edition

    by Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carretta ...
    Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent CarrettaAn exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrativerecounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Complete Writings

    by Phillis Wheatley, Vincent Carretta ...
    The extraordinary writings of Phillis Wheatley, a formerly enslaved woman turned published poetIn 1761, a young girl arrived in Boston on a ship of enslaved people, was sold to the Wheatley family, and given the name Phillis Wheatley. After studying English and classical literature, geography, the Bible, and Latin, Phillis published her first poem in 1767 at the age of 14, winning much public ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

    by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano ...
    A freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slaveryBorn in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery is the most direct criticism of slavery by a writer of ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Phillis Wheatley Peters

    Biography of a Genius in Bondage

    by Vincent Carretta ...
    This new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrity by the time she was in her early twenties, only to fall into relative obscurity when she died in 1784 at barely the age of thirty.Introduced to Benjamin Franklin in London, praised by her ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Equiano, the African

    Biography of a Self-Made Man

    by Vincent Carretta ...
    This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?–1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world’s most renowned person of African descent. Equiano’s greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. A key document of the early movement to ban the ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Genius in Bondage

    Literature of the Early Black Atlantic

    Edited by Vincent Carretta, Philip Gould ...
    Until fairly recently, critical studies and anthologies of African American literature generally began with the 1830s and 1840s. Yet there was an active and lively transatlantic black literary tradition as early as the 1760s. Genius in Bondage situates this literature in its own historical terms, rather than treating it as a sort of prologue to later African American writings. The contributors ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Igbo in the Atlantic World

    African Origins and Diasporic Destinations

    by Audra A. Diptee, John K. Thornton, Kenneth Morgan, A.E. Afigbo, Gloria Chuku, Nwando Achebe, Hannah N. Eby Chukwu, Gendolyn Midlo Hall, Paul E. Lovejoy, Douglas B. Chambers, Chima J. Korieh, Vincent Carretta, Maureen Warner-Lewis, Robert W. Nicholls, Waibinte Elekima Wariboko, Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie, Ogbu U. Kalu ...
    The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Unchained Voices

    An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Vincent Carretta ...
    In Unchained Voices, Vincent Carretta has assembled the most comprehensive anthology ever published of writings by eighteenth-century people of African descent, enabling many of these authors to be heard for the first time in two centuries.Their writings reflect the surprisingly diverse experiences of blacks on both sides of the Atlantic-America, Britain, the West Indies, and Africa-between 1760 ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Behn's Oroonoko

    by Sharon Alker, Emily Hodgson Anderson, Srinivas Aravamudan, Ana de Freitas Boe, Erik Bond, Keith M. Botelho, VIncent Carretta, Ashley Cross, Laura Doyle, Karen Gevirtz, Derek Hughes, Scott J. Juengel, Thomas W. Krise, Joyce Green MacDonald, Roberta C. Martin, Shawn Lisa Maurer, Jane Milling, Jessica Muns, Holly Faith Nelson, Bill Overton, Leslie Richardson, Laura J. Rosenthal, Margarete Rubik, Laura L. Runge, Jane Spencer, Laura M. Stevens, James Grantham Turner, Rose Zimbardo ...
    Series Book 127 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature, American literature, women's literature, drama, the slave narrative, and autobiography.Part ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • New England Bound

    Slavery and Colonization in Early America

    by Wendy Warren ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryA New York Times Notable BookA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionA Providence Journal Best Book of the YearWinner of the Organization of American Historians Merle Curti Award for Social HistoryFinalist for the Harriet Tubman PrizeFinalist for the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Book Prize"This book is an original achievem... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • "Myne Owne Ground"

    Race and Freedom on Virginia's Eastern Shore, 1640-1676

    by T. H. Breen, Stephen Innes ...
    Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, Myne Owne Ground has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations. During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves achieved freedom and formed a stable community on the Eastern shore. Holding their own with white neighbors for much of the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Name of War

    King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

    by Jill Lepore ...
    BANCROFF PRIZE WINNER • King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war—colonists against Indigenous peoples—that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to "deserve the name of a war."The war's brutality compelled the colonists to defend themselves against ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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