White Men's Magic

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, first published in England in 1789, was one of the earliest and remains to this day one of the best-known English language slave narratives. Characterizing Olaudah Equiano''s eighteenth-century narrative of his life as a type of ''''scriptural story'''' that connects the Bible with identity formation, Vincent...