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020 _a9780142437162
082 _a920.9
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100 _aEquiano, Olaudah
245 _aInteresting narrative and other writings
260 _bPenguin Books,
_c2003.
_aUK :
300 _axxxviii, 409 p. ;
_c20 cm.
365 _b1199.00
_c
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490 _aPenguin Classics
520 _aCompletely 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.
650 _aAutobiographies
650 _aEnslaved persons
650 _aGreat Britain Biography
650 _aEquiano, Olaudah, 1745-1797
700 _aCarretta, Vincent
_eed.
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