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autobiography of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in in London,^[1] is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (c.

Olaudah equiano biography book cover

– 31 March ), an African from what is now Nigeria who was enslaved in childhood and eventually earned his freedom and became an abolitionist in the United Kingdom.

The narrative is argued to represent a variety of styles, such as a slavery narrative, travel narrative, and spiritual narrative.^[2] The book describes Equiano's time spent in enslavement, and keeps track of his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his success in the end in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter.

Main themes

• Slavery in West Africa vs. slavery in the Americas
• The African slave's voyage from Africa (Igbo Land) to the Americas and England
• The cross-cultural and geop