Equiano’s Autobiography and Enlightenment Subjectivity

Equiano’s Autobiography and Enlightenment Subjectivity

Reading Equiano's Interesting Narrative (Timeline)
- Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) and Slavery
  - Equiano's Case: Exceptional or Typical?
  - Other Slave Narratives to Consider
  - The Bias of Survivor's Tales
    - Who writes the history of the "Sixty Million or More?"
- Equiano and Enlightenment Subjectivity
  - What makes Equiano a free man?
    - Name: Gustavus Vassa or Olaudah Equiano?
    - Literacy and Education
    - Religion
    - Property and Bourgeoise Society
      - Marriage to Susan Cullen (1792)
    - Politics: Abolitionism and The Sierra Leone Project
  - Equiano and the Paradox of Race in the Enlightenment
    - Equiano as Universal, Human Subject
    - Equiano as African Captive