Mostly what I notice in this narrative is how little it differs from the religious conversion narratives and pleas for financial support that were printed on behalf of white working-class men in similar situations. Gronniosaw is much more widely read than those because the text promises insight into

Indeed a remarkable story, and interesting from so many aspects. Short, easily readable, and a significant contribution to our understanding of this particular aspect of history.
What I found most remarkable is the difference between the three locations - Africa, North America, and England. In the fi

I wonder if this early example of "God used slavery for evangelism of Africa" was where that began? egan? Or if this just a reflects the pervasiveness of the idea?
The preface was quite awful - Calvinist determinism. As for the book, I wish it were possible to know much the author is speaking for the

I read this with absolutely no knowledge that it was the first text published by a black person in Britain. It was mentioned in ‘Black & British’ by David Olusoga, so — noticing it was incredibly short — I decided to give it a read, as an aside.

It’s incredibly unspecific about the details of what it

‪This was my fourth reading of Slave Narratives, after Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and Sojourner Truth. Presumingly this is the first example of slave autobiography and one of the very few ones where we the narrator is actually born in Africa and then taken to the New World. Ukawsaw is the gr