Author: Olaudah Equiano

  • The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

    The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings

    An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, and a precursor to the famous nineteenth-century slave narratives, Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa aged ten, his service as a slave of an officer in the British Navy for ten years, and his life after he bought his freedom in 1766, growing to become…

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