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Joanna Brooks is a national voice on Mormon life and polities, an award-winning scholar of religion and American culture, and the author or editor of five books. She has been featured on American Public Media's On Being, NPR's All Things Considered, NPR's Talk of the Nation, Interfaith Voices, afficher plus Radio West, and BBC's Americana, and in the New York Times, the Washing-ton Post, the CNN Belief Blog, and the Huffington Post. She is a columnist for the online magazine ReligionDispatches and offers answers to seekers of all stripes at her own website, Askmormongirl.com. Follow @askmormongirl on Twitter or visit her at joannabrooks.org. afficher moins

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Okay... This was brilliant. Equiano (Vassa?) is an utterly fascinating historical figure and man, and his story is thrilling. Sold into slavery as a child, Equiano, by the providence of God, was spared the brutality of North American farm labor and consequential obscurity. Bought by a smattering of high-ranking British captains, Equiano was taught to read, allowed to practice Christianity, and generally live a very free life (not counting some particularly bad owners), eventually buying his freedom and continuing his journey around the world. He charts his adventures traveling the world, the many injustices he must encounter, and the Christianity that was his bedrock. You just feel with him.

There is a lot of heartbreak in this account. How could there not? One thing I will recognize informs my high esteem of this story is the religious tone it uses. Equiano was what we'd call a true believer, and it's one more layer of interesting given the broader imperialism of Christianity. I implore the less religiously inclined to not fault him; I think it is incredibly dehumanizing to question this too much. His Christianity gave him strength, gave him a strong moral compass to battle for the abolition of the slave trade, and allowed him many great connections in a world where being black could be so tenuous. His Christianity was truly beautiful and made me yearn for church once more—Crazy how good, upstanding people can convert, no?

On a side note, the more I read 18th-century writing, the more I really think the period of the 1770s-1790s was the pinnacle of the written English word. The command of language Equiano employs is exquisite and commanding, and really quite arresting when relaying his life. It's a bit similar to how Du Bois' utilizes language a century later—both men show the "mental faculties" so many suppose they can't have on account of their skin.

Anyway, I can't recommend this enough. It's just... amazing. Equiano is a fascinating man caught between two worlds, and while his 18th-century Britishness can raise an eyebrow sometimes, it illustrates the breadth of thought of the period. I just spent an hour on York University's webpage about him, and I can't get enough. Ah!
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Eavans | 6 autres critiques | Nov 29, 2023 |
Olaudah Equiano (?-1707) was kidnapped from his home in Nigeria in 1745, brought to Virginia on a slave ship,
then sold to a British Naval Captain. They sailed to England where Olaudah went to school in London.

Captain then sold him to a Quaker and he bought his freedom.

During his life he was over and over betrayed by his former maste and other white menr as they traveled the ocean and back

He submitted his written Narrative to the Queen.

He worked hard to abolish slavery, describing to all who would listen in England
all that he had witnessed of the
"...tortures, murders, and every other imaginable barbarity..."

(Still not sure why he never learned to swim when he spent so much of his life at sea.)
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m.belljackson | 6 autres critiques | Jun 14, 2022 |
I was looking for more than this book offered. I was 100 pages into it (of a total of 203 pages) before she even made any reference to why she has dissented from the ranks of Mormonism. She didn't give a lot of understanding into the why of Mormon but just stated facts leaving me still boggled as to the reasoning behind some of the restrictions, preferences, etc. I just felt it was juvenile writing.
 
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WellReadSoutherner | 14 autres critiques | Apr 6, 2022 |
So much of this book resonated with me, and as I read, I regretted not being more informed while I was at BYU--because Ms. Brooks and I were there, in the same department, at the same time, and I had zero awareness of what was going on. Really enjoyed reading stories of the ongoing process of how she makes peace with her faith. Made me feel less alone in my own process.

 
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