Abigail Field Mott's the Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano

A Scholarly Edition
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-952271-84-7
Verlag: West Virginia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 380 g

Reihe: Regenerations

An adaptation of Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative published for Black children in 1829, now given new life in a major scholarly edition.

In 1829, Samuel Wood and Sons, a New York publisher of children’s literature, printed and sold the Quaker Abigail Field Mott’s Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano. Mott adapted Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, a bestselling autobiography first published in London in 1789 for Black children studying at New York African Free Schools, one of the first educational systems to teach individuals of African descent in the United States. By reissuing Mott’s neglected adaptation with contextualizing scholarly apparatus, Eric D. Lamore disrupts the editorial tradition of selecting a London edition of Equiano’s Interesting Narrative, and positions Equiano in the United States instead of Great Britain. Lamore’s volume contains Mott’s children’s book, which includes a series of illustrations, in a facsimile edition; instructive notes on Life and Adventures; a provocative essay on the adaptation; and selections from relevant texts on the New York African Free Schools and other related topics. With its focus on the intersections of early Black Atlantic and American studies, children’s literature, history of education, life writing, and book history, this edition offers a fresh take on Equiano and his autobiography for a variety of twenty-first-century audiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

LaMore, Eric D

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Kinder- und Jugendliteratur, Märchen, Mythen, Sagen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments     Introduction     A Note on the Text     The Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African     Explanatory Notes     Appendix A: Rethinking Textual Paradigms in Early Black Atlantic Studies     Appendix B: Pedagogy, Politics, and Regulations at the New York African Free Schools - An Address to the Parents and Guardians of the Children Belonging to the New-York African Free-School (1818)
- Charles C. Andrews, Letter to John B. Russwurm, Freedom’s Journal (1827)
- “A[frican] F[ree] S[chool],” Freedom’s Journal (1828) 
- A “[R]esolution,” Commercial Advertiser (1828)
- Selections from Charles C. Andrews, The History of the New-York African Free-Schools (1830)
Appendix C: Additional Works by and about Abigail Field Mott     - A Short Account of the Last Sickness and Death of Maria Mott (1817)
- “G[eneral] R[emarks]” from Abigail Field Mott, Observations on the Importance of Female Education, and Maternal Instruction (1825)
- Selections from Abigail Field Mott, Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Colour (1826)
- Selections from Abigail Field Mott, The Mother and Her Children (1828)
- “Report of [the] Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society of Albany,” The Albany Patriot (1845)
- Abigail Field Mott, “[Narrative] of Douglass,” The Liberator (1845)
- Memoir of Purchase Monthly Meeting, Concerning Abigail Mott (1852)
Appendix D: Selected Commentary on the Institution of Slavery in Books Published by Samuel Wood and Sons - “To the Reader,” The Penitential Tyrant (1807)
- “A Family [C]onversation on the Slavery of the Negroes,” The New-York Reader, No. 2 (1813)
- “Master and Slave,” The New-York Reader, No. 3 (1819)