Vincent Carretta
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
This definitive biography tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano (1745?—1797), who in his day was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent. Equiano's greatest legacy is his classic 1789 autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. A key document of the early movement to ban the slave trade, as well as the fundamental text in the...
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