Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The by Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 1797)
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written
in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his
time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his
attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the
Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in
business thereafter.
The book contains an interesting discussion of slavery in West
Africa and illustrates how the experience differs from the
dehumanising slavery of the Americas. The Interesting Narrative of
the Life of Olaudah Equiano is also one of the first widely read
slave narratives. It was generally reviewed favorably.
(Wikipedia)
This work was produced to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the
abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain.
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