- Slavery, Voyages and travels, Social life and customs, Slaves
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, details its writer's life in slavery, his time spent serving on galleys, the eventual attainment of his own freedom and later success in business. Including a look at how slavery stood in West Africa, the book received favorable reviews and was one of the first slave narratives to be read widely.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Olaudah Equiano
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 241
- Publisher
- Printed for Nicholson, [etc., etc.], Praeger, Lushena Books
- Editions
- 298
- Language
- English, German
- ISBN
- 9780312111274
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“I BELIEVE it is difficult for those who publish their own memoirs to escape the imputation of vanity; nor is this the only disadvantage under which they labour: it is also their misfortune, that what is uncommon is rarely, if ever, believed, and what is obvious we are apt to turn from with disgust, and to charge the writer with impertinence.”
An important African involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. He was enslaved when he was a child but was later able to buy his freedom.
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