Interesting narrative and other writings
- UK : Penguin Books, 2003.
- xxxviii, 409 p. ; 20 cm.
- Penguin Classics .
Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent CarrettaAn exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, his ten years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766, and his life afterward as a leading and respected figure in the antislavery movement in England.
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Autobiographies Enslaved persons Great Britain Biography Equiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797