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The Interesting Narrative (Paperback)
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The Interesting Narrative (Paperback)
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Loot Price R265
Discovery Miles 2 650
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'I hope the slave trade may be abolished. I pray it may be an event
at hand.' 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. 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. He takes
part in naval engagements, is shipwrecked, and has other exciting
adventures on his travels to the Caribbean, America, and the
Arctic. Equiano claimed his own freedom and became an important
abolitionist, but his Narrative is much more than merely a
political pamphlet. The most important African autobiography of the
eighteenth century, it has achieved an increasingly central
position among the century's great works of literature. The
introduction to this edition surveys recent debates about Equiano's
birthplace and identity, and considers his campaigning role and
literary achievements.
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