The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Revised Edition
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- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
27 May 2003
Summary
Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta
An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass’s autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, his ten years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchas…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780142437162 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0142437166 |
| Author: | Olaudah Equiano, Vincent Carrett |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 27 May 2003 |
| Weight: | 312g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 131mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Olaudah Equiano
Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) was a former slave who became an outspoken opponent of the slave trade.
Vincent Carretta is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of the Complete Writings of Phillis Wheatley, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, and Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of SLavery and Other Writingsby Ottobah Cugoano.
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