Clarence Walkerlink is Professor of History at University of California, Davis. Educated at University of California Berkeley, his publications include: We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument About Afrocentrism, "Asante’s Aposteori” in Chretien, Fauvelle, and Perrot, Afrocentrisme: Histoire, Memoire, Identities , Recomposee’s, “Denial Is Not A River In Egypt: Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson” in History, Memory, and Civic Culture , Edited By Jan Lewis and Peter Onuf, and “If Everybody was a King, who Built the Pyramids?: Afrocentrism and Black American History,” in Emerging Structures, ed., Rudi Keller and Karl Menges. Recently he served as academic advisor to the PBS American Experience television series : Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (2004).
For more information on Olaudah Equiano check out our weblinks below
Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa, the African
http://www.brycchancarey.com/equiano/
The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano
http://www.princeton.edu/~howarth/304.Projects/Erera/Pages/Main.htm
Africans in America > Olaudah Equiano
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p276.html
Olaudah Equiano > Biography & Excerpts from his autobiography
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Sequiano.htm
A Slave on Three Continents Explore the remarkable life of Olaudah Equiano through his own words in this website published by the Discovery Channel.
http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/slavery/equiano.html
Gustavus Vassa, the African.Plaque commemorating the daughter of Olaudah Equiano from St Andrew's Church, Chesterton, Cambridge in the UK.
http://www.ely.anglican.org/parishes/chesandr/vassa.htm
The grave of Olaudah Equiano's daughter from Cambridge UK
http://c9s.e2bn.net/e2bn/leas/c99/schools/c9s/web/
public/NGfL%20Team/remembering/documents/Cambridge3.htm
A copy of Equiano's marriage certificate. On the 7th of April 1792, Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa) married Susannah Cullen at St Andrew's Church, Soham.
http://emeagwali.com/igbo/
Writings of Olaudan Equiano
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African - full text
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/equiano/equiano_contents.html
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. Vol. I. - full text of his autobiography published in 1780
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano1/menu.html
African American Voices > Olaudah Equiano Excerpt from his book.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=33
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African (1789) excerpt from his autobiography
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/
world_civ_reader_2/equiano.html
Lesson Plan: The Kidnapped Prince - The Life of Olaudah
http://imet.csus.edu/imet1/desler/passages/odyssey/odyssey.htm
A Son of Africa. Dir. Alrick Riley. Videocassette. Aimimage Productions. 1996. based upon Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narration of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African. London, 1789.: Resources for Teachers HS and DVD, 28 minutes, 1996 This short film recounts the life of Olaudah Equiano through his autobiography
http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0086
African Immigration to Colonial America by Ira Berlin
http://www.historynow.org/03_2005/historian3.html
Books
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano : or, Gustavus Vassa, the African ((Penguin Classics) by Olaudah Equiano. link to Amazon
Readings in African-American History by Thomas R. Frazier link to Amazon
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa by Mungo Park, link to Amazon
Black London: Life Before Emancipation by Gretchen Gerzina link to Amazon
The Two Princes of Calabar : An Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Odyssey by Randy J. Sparks link to Amazon
Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves by Ira Berlin link to Amazon
