GUSTAVUS VASSA’S NOTIONS ON HIS FAITH CONVERSION, HIS FREEDOM, AND THE STATE OF BEING LITERACY IN THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE

Abstract

The study analyzes Gustavus Vassa’s notions on his conversion into Christianity, the process of getting his freedom, and the state of being literacy in Britain in the18^th century in The Interesting Narrative.  It applies the descriptive qualitative method that it focuses on analyzing and interpreting the data gathered from the narrative. It results in his notions that reveal his certainty to resemble the Englishman identity after his conversion to Christianity. His steady as a Christian practitioner confirms him to be capable of buying his own freedom and places him as an English writer who speaks for freedom, slavery abolition, and human egalitarianism. His Interesting Narrative gradually appeals to national culture in relevance to English literature.