Brycchan Carey is an expert in the cultural history of slavery and
its abolition. He is the author of From Peace to Freedom: Quaker
Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1658-1761 (Yale UP,
2012), and British Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Sensibility:
Writing, Sentiment, and Slavery, 1760-1807 (Palgrave, 2005). His
most recent collection, Quakers and Abolition, co-edited with
Geoffrey Plank, was published by the University
of Illinois Press in 2014.
The appetite for Equiano and his memoir shows no signs of abating,
as this new edition shows.
*James Walvin, The Times*
The book adds to the body of knowledge about a great man, Olaudah
Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Students now have a wider
chose of resources as they study his complex but interesting
life.
*Arthur Torrington, The Equiano Society*
This book will change our assumptions about slavery and affect, and
also change our sense of what works can be connected to this vast
enterprise. It makes for what is sometimes surprising reading, but
it also makes so much sense that the century will never again look
quite the same as it did before this book.
*George E. Haggerty, SEL Studies in English Literature
1500-1900*
This edition of Equiano's The Interesting Narrative, paired with
Carey's introduction and explanatory materials, provides a text
that is meaningful across educational levels and backgrounds. It
should help to ensure that Equiano's text, with its relevance to
multiple disciplines and areas of inquiry, does not again disappear
from our awareness.
*International Journal of African Historical Studies*
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