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

Eric D. Lamore is professor of English at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. He is the coeditor of New Essays on Phillis Wheatley and the editor of Teaching Olaudah Equiano's Narrative: Pedagogical Strategies and New Perspectives and Reading African American Autobiography: Twenty-First-Century Contexts and Criticism.

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 ChildrenBelonging 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 theNew-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 theImportance of Female Education, and Maternal Instruction(1825)
Selections from Abigail Field Mott,Biographical Sketches andInteresting 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 inBooks 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)