[lit-ideas] Re: "The Interesting Narratives of the Life of Olaudah Equiano written by himself"
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 06:02:13 -0500
JL:
>>Geary is a better mathematician than I --
Yes, I'm greatly admired for my math skills. I scored in the 30th percentile
in math on the GRE. A record, I think, but I haven't done the math.
Mike Geary
ciphering in
Memphis
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From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 10:01 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] "The Interesting Narratives of the Life of Olaudah
Equiano written by himself"
Thanks again to Judy Evans for the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olaudah_Equiano
I read he was also known as "Gustavus Vassa, the African". Equiano was sold
to white slave traders and taken to the New World, specifically Barbados.
Equiano was sent to Ms. Guerin, Pascal's sister, to attend school and learn to
read in England. Equiano found it dangerous and limiting to remain in the
British American colonies as a freed black. While loading a ship in Georgia, he
was almost kidnapped back into slavery.
Modern studies on the book fails to consider a possible circumstance, which
is that the 12-year old Equiano who spoke little or no English at the time of
his baptism, most likely he was not consulted when the place of his birth was
entered on the baptismal certificate, and that his guardians, being aware that
he was bought in the Americas, provided what information they assumed to be
probable."
Another problem is in the bio by Dr. Acholonu. She claims in her book to
have interviewed living respondents in the 1980s who remembered growing up with
Equiano before his capture in the mid-18th century."
Geary is a better mathematician than I -- but who old were the respondents,
then?
I find the prose of Olaudah (he says his name means "louder" in aborigine) a
bit overbearing. He married a provincial English lady and had two daughters by
her. He was very much into sailing, and was very knowledgeable of things.
His grave remains a mystery.
Cheers,
JL
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