A selective list of articles on the eighteenth-century autobiographer Olaudah Equiano, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Carretta, Vincent. A substantial introduction to Equiano from the Literary Encyclopedia 28 October 2000
Carretta, Vincent and Philip Gould, eds.Review of Genius in Bondage: Literature of the Early Black Atlantic. Covers many writers of the African Atlantic, including Briton Hammon, Ottobah Cugoano, Jupiter Hammon, John Marrant, and Benjamin Banneker, Phillis Wheatley, Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, and Mary Prince. In African American Review, Winter, 2003 reviewed by John C. Shields
Costanzo, Angelo. Strategies for teaching Equiano. From Heath
Quintanilla, Mark. "Mercantile communities in the Ceded Islands: the Alexander Bartlet & George Campbell Company." Background reading: On the enormous importance of the Caribbean to the European imperialists. In International Social Science Review, Spring-Summer, 2004
An internet project on Equiano provides background on the Middle Passage, Equiano's style and influence
Resources on Equiano from PBS
Resources on Equiano and the anti-slavery movement in England, from the BBC
Web site on Equiano by Brycchan Carey, with additional sections on Ignatius Sancho, Ottobah Cugoano, British Abolitionists, and more
North American Slave Narratives, from Documenting the American South
Selections from the Life of Gustavus Vassa. "Olaudah Equiano composed the first-ever slave autobiography as a freed slave living in England. His autobiography, The Life of Gustavus Vassa (Gustavus Vassa was one of the names given to him by his owners), became a phenomenal best-seller in its time, both in England and America, and fueled a young but growing anti-slavery movement."
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