This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?1797), who in his day was the English-speaking worlds most renowned person of African descent.
This new edition of Phillis Wheatley Peters is the first full-length biography of the poet whose remarkable odyssey took her from being a child enslaved in Africa to becoming an international celebrity by the time she was in her early ...
An interdisciplinary and intercontinental study, this book examines the political satiric poetry and political graphic prints of Britain and Colonial America during the late Georgian period--a tumultuous era that witnessed the American and ...
'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event at hand.' Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting...
Extension of the author's thesis--University of Iowa.
In the aftermath of World War I, a financial war was fought on the battlegrounds of international organizations and financial diplomacy.