With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is both modern and readable.
Olaudah Equiano's narrative is his experience away from his dear home.
In this new edition, leading historian David Olusoga sets the book in its historical context helping us to understand this complex, spiritual, politically astute and deeply passionate man.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself
The first book ever to be published by a black man,in Britain, this story of Equiano's life from,freedom in Africa through slavery and back to,freedom was a best-seller when first issued,in 1789.
The narrative “is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence,” writes Robert Reid-Pharr in ...
Anyone with an interest in the slave trade or the abolitionist movement will find this book essential reading.
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano.
The Interesting Narrative (1789) is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It was the first slave autobiography and one of the earliest publication by an African. Equiano describes the experiences of his life and the time spent in slavery.
Reproduction of the original: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavo Vassa, The African by Olaudah Equiano