This work was produced to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Great Britain.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is also one of the first widely read slave narratives. When he was about eleven, Equiano was kidnapped and sold to slave traders headed to the West Indies. Summary Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in Eboe, in what is now Nigeria. 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, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. 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 Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
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