| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.3

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Vincent Carretta. Equiano the African: Biography of a Self-Made Man. Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2005. Pp. xxiv, 436. $29.95.

Often when my students read The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), their first response is a flash of recognition. Since 1969, when Dawsons of Pall Mall (London) published a facsimile edition with an introduction by Paul Edwards, Equiano's memoir has become the iconic slave narrative. Republished in numerous scholarly and popular editions and included in a wide array of literary anthologies, it has served as source material for historians, educators, and producers of popular culture in almost every medium. Recent interest in the transnational paradigm and its application to the histories of Atlantic peoples of color, spurred by Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993) and by Ira Berlin's conception of "Atlantic Creoles" as the founding generation of African-descended people, laid out in "From Creole to African: Atlantic Creoles and the Origins of African-American Societies in Mainland North America" (William and Mary Quarterly [1996]) and in Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America (1998), has also focused new attention on Equiano, the quintessential Atlantic creole. Equiano's memoir is a rich source of first-hand testimony on matters ranging from the nature of family life, culture, and slavery in Africa to the horrors of the Middle Passage and eighteenth-century black cosmopolitanism.

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