Footnote # 1

The description in this paragraph is based on Olaudah Equiano's in his "Life of Olaudah Equiano," included in Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editor, Classic Slave Narratives (New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2002), pp. 56-57.

Footnote # 2

See the "Life of Olaudah Equiano" in Henry Louis Gates, Jr., editor, Classic Slave Narratives (New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2002), pp. 69-70.

Further Reading

Berlin, Ira. Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1998.

Davidson, Basil. The African Slave Trade. Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1980.

Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Penguin Putnam, 2002.

Greene, Lorenzo Johnston. The Negro in Colonial New England. New York: Atheneum, 1971.

Jones, Constance. Africa 1500-1900. New York: Facts on File, 1993.

Martin, Phyllis M. and Patrick O'Meara. Africa. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1977.

Piersen,William D. Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth Century New England. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.