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Acknowledgments i am grateful to Scot Danforth, director of the University of Tennessee Press, for expressing interest in this volume, to Kerry Webb, acquisitions editor at the University of Tennessee Press, for all of her generous time, and to Gene Adair, manuscript editor at the press, for his careful work on the book. The press found two superb readers to evaluate the manuscript of Teaching Olaudah Equiano’s Narrative . i have no doubt that the comments from these readers enhanced this volume. i am indebted to vincent Carretta for his meticulous reading of the manuscript and for contributing the foreword. i wish to thank Marion rust, the chairperson of “Teaching Equiano’s Narrative ,” the title of a panel at the 2008 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, for inviting me to participate on this conference panel. This opportunity motivated me to complete this book. i would also like to extend my thanks to all the contributors whose valuable intellectual work appears in this volume. Thank you for teaching me about Equiano’s Narrative by consistently calling my attention to additional layers of complexity found in this text. i would be remiss if i did not acknowledge the generous time that ricia Anne Chansky invested in reading parts of this manuscript and in hearing me talk again and again about teaching Equiano’s Narrative. This volume is dedicated, with love, to her because of her unwavering support. finally, thank you to E.J. and M.K. for making me smile. * * * for permission to reprint previously published articles, i am grateful to the following authors and rights holders: xiv Acknowledgments Srinivas Aravamudan. “Equiano lite.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34:4 (2001): 615–19. © 2001 The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. reprinted with permission of The Johns hopkins University Press. Sarah Brophy. “Olaudah Equiano, Autobiography, and ideas of Culture.” 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era 17 (2010): 249–70. Copyright © 2010 AMS Press, inc. All right reserved. reprinted with permission of AMS Press. Tess Chakkalakal. “i, hereby, vow to read The Interesting Narrative.” Captivating Subjects: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, and Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Eds. Jason haslam and Julia M. Wright. 86–112. © The University of Toronto Press, 2005. Portions of this essay are reprinted with permission of The University of Toronto Press. Adam Potkay. “history, Oratory, and God in Equiano’s Interesting Narrative .” Eighteenth-Century Studies 34:4 (2001): 601–14. © 2001 The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. reprinted with permission of The Johns hopkins University Press. roxannWheeler.“DomesticatingEquiano’sInterestingNarrative.”EighteenthCentury Studies 34:4 (2001): 620–24. © 2001 The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. reprinted with permission of The Johns hopkins University Press. ...

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