Gustavus vassa

captains of slave ships and British navy vessels. One of his masters, Henry Pascal, the captain of a British trading vessel, gave him the name Gustavas Vassa, which he hardly used throughout his life. Paul Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History stated: He claims that when his master, Michael Henry Pascal, gave him the name Gustavus Vassa at age 12 while crossing the Atlantic in 1754, he ‘refused to be called so.’ He apparently had not objected to the names he had been given earlier

Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa, traveled much of the world encountering a variety of people from different cultures and backgrounds. In Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, the author witnesses how slavery was imbedded in the economic and social values of his day and age, through the experiences of others as well as himself. Having numerous relationships with people of differing religions, socioeconomic statuses, and principles, he developed a unique

The contemporary society has started to express a lot of interest in cultural values in the recent years and the concept of the African Diaspora has received a lot of attention from the general public as a result of the complex ideas that it puts across. There are a series of notable figures from the nineteenth century who proved that the African Diaspora would have a significant influence on the Western World, considering that these people were determined to express their passion in regard to their

In 1789, Olaudah Equiano published his autobiography that was entitled, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African. The purpose of the book was to aid the abolitionist efforts in their struggle to abolish slavery. From the beginning of the book, it is apparent that the intended audience of the book are Christians. A quote from the book of Isaiah, containing “Behold, God is my salvation ;” preluded Equiano’s narrative that detailed his life, beginning with his kidnapping

Frederick Douglass’ Narrative serves as an influential text which provides detailed examples of how slavery allowed a country and a government to justify the brutal dehumanization and oppression of an entire race of people. Using personal experience, Douglass explains how the slave institution not only dehumanized himself, but also how the process affected other slaves and the slaveowners as well. Douglass relies on a strong imagery relating back to animals to show this dehumanization process, which

An enormous contributor to the abolition of slavery, was the ability of certain people to be able to tell their stories. Slaves, both those that had been freed and those that had not, were able to do this in a number of ways; notably through music, poetry and books. Literacy was an unspeakably important part of building the slave narrative and, subsequently, the overturn of slavery. Frederick Douglass and Olaudah Equiano were both paramount figures in this movement because of their widely known memoirs

assimilate or resist? But The Melting Pot Theory is not inclusive of Blacks since the process of assimilation could not work its magic on black skin.   In the slave narrative, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, the capture of Africans, their ultimate enslavement in the Americas, the West Indies, and Europe exemplify the assigned

In Equiano’s autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, is one of the books that is wrote in English by someone of the African inheritance. It is one of the most successful book that was written by the start of the Civil War. Books like autobiographies were not recognized as a form of genre in the 1700s. Books that were produced in those days were given bright, firm, fearless narratives. Everyone knew Equiano’s narrative. It considered religious pieces

“African slavery is the corner-stone of the industrial, social, and political fabric of the South; and whatever wars against it, wars against her very existence. Strike down the institution of African slavery and you reduce the South to depopulation and barbarism.” –Lawerence Keitt, South Carolina Congressman, 1860 Slave trading dates back to ancient times, but it did not become popular until the fifteenth century when the Portugese began engaging in slave trading for profit. The colonization

Enlightenment, a range of ideas that spawned the Age of Reason, has catapulted human civilization into the realm of scientific reasoning. European centralized enlightenment, though not the only type of pivotal change in reasoning of its time, made its epicenter in the United Kingdom and affected other cultures as imperialism encompassed colonized areas. European enlightenment spread in contact zones normalized the notion of “us vs. them” and created a classifying system of norms for the conquered