Olaudah Equiano: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
James Walvin, An African’s Life: The Life and Times of Olaudah Equiano, 1745–1797 (1998); Vincent Carretta, Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man (2005, reissued 2022); Chima J. Korieh (ed.), Olaudah Equiano and the Igbo World: History, Society, and Atlantic Diaspora Connections (2009); Angelo Costanzo, Surprizing Narrative: Olaudah Equiano and the Beginnings of Black Autobiography (1987).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
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| Add new Web site: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History - Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, a Self-Made Man. | Nov 07, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: The British Library - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. | Jul 13, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Mar 27, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Documenting the American South - Olaudah Equiano. | Nov 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Olaudah Equiano�s Biography: Fact or/and Fiction (PDF). | Aug 26, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Museums Liverpool - Who was Olaudah Equiano? | Jul 19, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Ohio State University Pressbooks - British Literature to 1800 - Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797). | Jun 04, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Feb 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Open University - OpenLearn - Olaudah Equiano, the Abolitionist and Author. | Feb 01, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - This far by faith - Biography of Olaudah Equiano. | Dec 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Bridgewater State University - Olaudah Equiano's Views of Slavery in his "Narrative of the Life". | Sep 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Olaudah Equiano. | Jul 26, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNESCO Slavery and Remembrance - Biography of Olaudah Equiano. | May 30, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Christianity Today - Olaudah Equiano�s Argument Against Slavery Was His Life Experience. | Feb 16, 2023 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 28, 2022 | ||
| Article revised. | Nov 15, 2022 | ||
| Reference to the poem “Miscellaneous Verses…” removed. | Nov 15, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: BlackPast - Olaudah Equiano. | Oct 25, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: UNESCO Slavery and Remembrance - Olaudah Equiano. | Oct 25, 2021 | ||
| Expanded discussion of his early life. | Dec 15, 2020 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 29, 2019 | ||
| Added new Web site: Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African. | May 21, 2006 | ||
| Article revised. | Dec 03, 2004 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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