'This book will change our assumptions about slavery and affect, and also change our sense of what works can be connected to this vast enterprise. Students now have a wider chose of resources as they study his complex but interesting life.' - Arthur Torrington, The Equiano Society 'The book adds to the body of knowledge about a great man, Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African. 'The appetite for Equiano and his memoir shows no signs of abating, as this new edition shows.' - James Walvin, The Times The introduction to this edition surveys recent debates about Equiano's birthplace and identity, and considers his campaigning role and literary achievements. The most important African autobiography of the eighteenth century, it has achieved an increasingly central position among the century's great works of literature. He takes part in naval engagements, is shipwrecked, and has other exciting adventures on his travels to the Caribbean, America, and the Arctic.Įquiano claimed his own freedom and became an important abolitionist, but his Narrative is much more than merely a political pamphlet. Equiano was slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker merchant, and he vividly depicts the appalling treatment of enslaved people at sea and on land.

Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author's account of his enslavement after his childhood kidnapping in Africa, and his journey from slavery to freedom. 'I hope the slave trade may be abolished.

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