Narrative of Louis Asa-Asa, A Captured African

Asa-Asa, Louis (Author)

First Edition - London, England : F. Westley and A. H. Davis, Stationer's Hall Court; and by Waugh & Innes, Edinburgh, 1831

English

The Narrative of Louis Asa-Asa: A Captured African was first published in 1831 in the supplement to The History of Mary Prince. Thomas Pringle, the secretary of the Anti-Slavery Society, and the editor of Mary Prince's History, appended a supplement to the History and included Louis Asa-Asa's Narrative, calling it a "suitable appendix" and "convenient supplement" to the History. The Narrative of Louis Asa-Asa was included in the supplements to all three editions of the History (see Ferguson "Appendix 2" 132-135). The only known details of Louis Asa-Asa's life are those recorded within the two pages of his slave narrative, and within Thomas Pringle's introductory remarks to the Narrative. He was born into a family that resided in an area named Bycla, near a large town called Egie. His exact date of birth and death are unknown, but around the age of thirteen, Asa-Asa was captured and enslaved. After being exchanged between numerous slaveholders, Asa-Asa was eventually brought to England on a French slave ship named The Pearl. He chose to stay in England with the abolitionist George Stephen.

Narratives
Slave Narratives
Early Caribbean Slave Narratives
Otou
Clashoquin
Prince, Mary
Stephen, George
Egie
London, England

January 31, 1831-January 31, 1831

1831

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Asa-Asa, Louis. "Narrative of Louis Asa-Asa: a Captured African." Ed. Thomas Pringle. The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. London: F. Westley and A.H. Davis, 1831.