Authenticity and Autobiography: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African DOCUMENTS Paul E. Lovejoy March 25, 2011.

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Authenticity and Autobiography: Gustavus Vassa, alias Olaudah Equiano, the African DOCUMENTS Paul E. Lovejoy March 25, 2011

Gustavus Vassa c Frontispiece, The Interesting Narrative, First edition, 1789

8 th edition, 1794

Marriage Certificate Gustavus Vassa and Susannah Cullen 7 April 1792 Soham Community History Museum

Will of Gustavus Vassa, 1797 Public Record Office, London, Prob 10/3372

St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster

Baptismal Register. February 7-11, St Margaret’s Church, London

Haymarket, London

Source: Constantine John Phipps, A Voyage towards the North Pole, Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command (London: J. Nourse, 1774)

Admiralty Records, Muster Books, ADM 36/7490

Muster Book, Race Horse, 1773

ichi facial markings Northcote W. Thomas, Anthropological Report on the Ibo-Speaking People of Nigeria (London: Harrison and Sons, 1913), Plate XVII

Cornelius O. Adepegba, “A Survey of Nigerian Body Markings and their Relationship to other Nigerian Arts” (Ph.D. thesis, Indiana University, 1976)

Source: Constantine John Phipps, A Voyage towards the North Pole, Undertaken by His Majesty’s Command (London: J. Nourse, 1774) Apparatus for Distillation of Seawater Charles Irving, Arctic Expedition, 1773

Source: Philip D. Curtin, Two Jamaicas: The Role of Ideas in a Tropical Colony, (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1955) Kingston

Mosquito Shore Source: National Library, Kingston, Jamaica

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