Introduction Vincent Carretta A Note on the Text Acknowledgments A Note on Money Suggestions for Further Reading The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equianos.
The Interesting Narrative is a spirited autobiography, a tale of spiritual quest and fulfillment and a sophisticated treatise on religion, politics and economics. The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings-Revised Edition Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta An exciting. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writers life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and later success in business. 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 one of the foremost figures of the anti-slavery movement in Britain.
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