Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
by Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carretta
4.0
(5 ratings)355 pages1789Penguin ClassicsISBN 9780140434859
About this book
Recounts Equiano's kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, and his years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766. In England he worked for the resettlement of blacks in Sierra Leone, married an Englishwoman, and became a leading and respected figure in the anti-slave movement.
Publication Details
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Published
- 1789
- Pages
- 355
- ISBN
- 9780140434859
- Language
- en
About Olaudah Equiano
An important African involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. He was enslaved when he was a child but was later able to buy his freedom.
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