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African American writers. Valerie Smith, consulting editor; Lea
Baechler, A. Walton Litz, general editors. New York : C. Scribner's Sons; Toronto: Collier
Macmillan Canada ; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.
The article entitled "The Slave Narrative in American Literature" discusses the narratives of Equiano, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Jacobs and includes a bibliography of primary sources, biographies, and critical studies.
CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 153 .N5 A344 1991
Black literature criticism: excerpts from criticism of the most significant works of black authors over the past 200 years. Edited by James P. Draper. Detroit: Gale Research, 1992.
An introductory essay on Equiano is followed by extensive excerpts from six different sources, including an anonymous review published in London in a 1789 issue of The Monthly Review. A bibliography of Further Readings identifies additional research sources.
CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 153 .N5 B556 1992 -- v1-3
Dictionary of literary biography. Detroit: Gale
Research, 1978-.
Volumes containing bio-critical essays on Equiano include:
- Vol. 37: American writers of the early republic
- Vol. 50: Afro-American writers before the Harlem Renaissance
CALL NUMBER: Ref PS 221 .D510
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. Edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, c1996.
CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185 .E54 1996 -- v1-5
Nnebe, Nwabu.
"Olaudah Equiano: Biography." [ Online ]. Available:
A biographical essay on Equiano's life, based principally on The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Paul Edwards.
"Olaudah Equiano." [ Online ]. Available:
A brief biographical essay on Equiano's life, from the more extensive Equiano Foundation Online site.
Dictionary of Afro-American slavery. Edited by Randall M. Miller and
John David Smith. New York: Greenwood Press, 1988.
CALL NUMBER: Ref E 441 .D53 1988
Miller, Joseph Cader.
Slavery and slaving in world history: a bibliography, 1990-1991.
Millwood, New York: Kraus International Publications, c1993.
CALL NUMBER: Ref Bibliog HT 861 .M544 1993
Asante, Molefi K., 1942-
The historical and cultural atlas of African Americans. Molefi K.
Asante, Mark T. Mattson. New York: Macmillan; Toronto: Collier Macmillan; New York:
Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.
In addition to the numerous maps and illustrations, each section--and particularly those covering African Origins, The Trans-Atlantic Journey, African Resistance to Enslavement, and The Great Enslavement--includes an extensive essay that aspect of African American history and culture.
CALL NUMBER: Ref Atlas E 185 .A8 1991
Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara. John Middleton, editor in chief. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1997.
Volume 4 includes relevant articles on the "Slave Trade" in various parts of Africa and on "Slavery and Servile Institutions."
CALL NUMBER: Ref DT 351 .E53 1997 -- v1-4
Encyclopedia of African-American culture and history. Edited by Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, Cornel West. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, c1996.
Volume 5 includes relevant articles on: "Slave Narratives," "Slavery," and the "Slave Trade."
CALL NUMBER: Ref E 185 .E54 1996 -- v1-5
Encyclopedia of American social history. Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, Peter W. Williams, editors. New York: Scribner; Toronto: Maxwell Macmillan Canada; New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, c1993.
See the articles on "African Migration" and "Slavery" in Volume II.
CALL NUMBER: Ref HN 57 .E58 1993 -- v.1-3
Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics. Ruth Chadwick, editor-in-chief. San Diego: Academic Press, 1998.
See the article in Volume 4 on "Slavery" which covers types of slavery, slavery in ancient times, slavery in Christian and Islamic societies, and justifications for and arguments against it.
CALL NUMBER: Ref BJ 63 .E44 1998 -- v.1-3
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There is a brief biographical essay on Equiano online along with information on the Foundation's plans, which include producing an audio taped version of the narrative along with a CD-ROM, publishing articles in a newsletter and annual journal, and producing a documentary film.
Address:
http://www.atomicage.com/equiano/
Extract from: The Interesting Narrative of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African. Written by Himself.
Address: http://www.bl.uk/collections/africa/equiano.html
A biographical essay on Equiano's life, based principally on The Life of OLAUDAH EQUIANO by Paul Edwards along with links to other relevant Web sites. Maintained by Nwabu Nnebe.
Address: http://lioness.cm.utexas.edu/I-files/Igbo.dir/equiano.htm
DAS is a database sponsored by the Main Library System at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, providing digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. The current database includes three digitization projects: slave narratives, first-person narratives, and Southern literature.
Address:
http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/
Courtesy of California Newsreel, includes links to other slave narratives, and a selected bibliography.
Address:
http://www.newsreel.org/guides/equiano.htm
"Amistad Revolt was a shipboard uprising off the coast of Cuba that carried itself, inadvertently but fatefully, to the United States--where the Amistad Captives set off an intense legal, political,
and popular debate over the slave trade, slavery, race, Africa, and ultimately
America itself."
Address:
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/main/welcome.html
The site includes slavery bibliographies, full-text, online excerpts from 46 slave narratives (organized into a variety of categories, including: capture and enslavement, the Middle passage, arrival in the new world, living conditions, children, family, religion, punishment, resistance, flight, and emancipation), oral histories, and links to map sites, census data, and a slave trade demographic simulation. Maintained by Steven Mintz, Dept, of History, University of Houston.
Address:
http://bentley.uh.edu/mintz/slave.htm
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Scholarly periodical databases give a researcher access to articles on specific subjects that have appeared in variety of periodicals. Such databases may cover a broad area of study the way SOCIAL SCIENCES ABSTRACTS and HUMANITIES ABSTRACTS do. Others, such as Black Studies on Disc, focus more sharply. Most journal articles listed are written by scholars and aimed at other researchers in that field, making them particularly important research sources. Searching a database will give the researcher the bibliographic citation needed to identify and locate a specific work on a topic: author, title of article, journal title, volume and issue number, date, and pages. An abstract briefly summarizes an article's contents.
Some online databases-- H.W. Wilson Select Full Text in FirstSearch, and Project Muse--include the full text of at least some of the articles online. Databases are accessible via the Library's Electronic Resources Page.
Relevant online databases for research on Equiano and his times include:
- EBSCOhost
- Project Muse
- ProQuest Direct
- America History & Life
OCLC FirstSearch Databases:
- Arts and Humanities Search - citation database
- Biography Index
- Humanities Abstracts
- Social Science Abstracts
- WorldCat - books and other library materials
Relevant CD-ROM databases include:
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July 18, 2007