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 Children Belonging 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 the New-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 the Importance of Female Education, and Maternal Instruction (1825) Selections from Abigail Field Mott, Biographical Sketches and Interesting 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 in Books 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).