Vincent Carretta

Standard Name: Carretta, Vincent

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Olaudah Equiano
According to his own account, OE , Black writer in English, was born in the Kingdom of Benin (probably the region of present-day Nigeria, not the country of that name); some recent scholars argue...
Family and Intimate relationships Phillis Wheatley
They had three children in six years, but all of them died as babies. Vincent Carretta 's Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage, 2011, offers a little more information about Peters.
Reception Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
An unperformed tragedy, Inkle and Yarico by the obscure Mrs Weddell (apparently based on Frances, Lady Hertford 's poem of this title), was published in London.
Scholar Vincent Carretta thinks that Mrs Weddell may be...
Textual Production Olaudah Equiano
During the last decade of his life OE published regularly in the abolitionist cause in the media of his day. Vincent Carretta collected these minor works in editing The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by...
Textual Production Olaudah Equiano
Ten days later the Public Advertiser printed his letter of 13 March to Lord Hawkesbury (later Lord Liverpool) , President of the Board of Trade, offering material for the committee investigating the slave trade (which...

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Texts

Carretta, Vincent. Equiano, the African: Biography of a Self–made Man. University of Georgia Press, 2005.
Carretta, Vincent. George III and the Satirists from Hogarth to Byron. University of Georgia Press, 1990.
Carretta, Vincent. “Olaudah Equiano: African British abolitionist and founder of the African American slave narrative”. The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative, edited by Audrey Fisch, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 44-60.
Carretta, Vincent. “Review”. Eighteenth Century Studies, Vol.
34
, No. 1, pp. 121-6.