Equiano's Travels by Olaudah Equiano, Paul Edwards

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Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in a village east of the Niger Riverin what is now Nigeria. At the age of ten, he was captured by slave tradersand taken to the American south where he was sold to a planter in the WestIndies where he worked aboard slave ships sailing between the Caribbeanand England.

By the age of twenty-one, Equiano had saved enough money to buy hisfreedom. He visited the Mediterranean, took part in Phipp's expeditionto the Arctic, and crossed the Atlantic several times. He became an ardentmember of the anti-slavery movement and came to know several of its leaders.

Between1789 and 1827, Equiano's book, The Interesting Narrative ofthe Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African raninto seventeen editions in Britain and the U.S. This slightly abridgededition, now reissued from its first published edition in 1967, keeps inprint a book of great literary and historical importance in the contextof African writing.

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