The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written By Himself

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano , written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time spent in slavery, serving primarily on galleys, documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter. The book contains an interesting discussion of slavery in West Africa and illustrates how the experience differs from the dehumanising slavery of the Americas. The Intereresting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is also one of the first widely read slave narratives.(From Wikipedia)This work was produced in honor of the 200th anniversary of abolition in Great Britain. Download M4B Part 1 (107MB) Download M4B Part 2 (118MB)

Directors & creators

Olaudah Equiano

Subjects

slavery; olaudah equiano; abolition; autobiography; africa; slave narrative

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