The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself: (An African American Heritage Book) - Softcover

Equiano, Olaudah

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604592419 ISBN 13: 9781604592412

Publisher: Wilder Publications, 2008

Synopsis

Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade. He wrote an autobiography that depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807. This is his story. I hope the reader will not think I have trespassed on his patience in introducing myself to him with some account of the manners and customs of my country. They had been implanted in me with great care, and made an impression on my mind, which time could not erase, and which all the adversity and variety of fortune I have since experienced served only to rivet and record; for, whether the love of one's country be real or imaginary, or a lesson of reason, or an instinct of nature, I still look back with pleasure on the first scenes of my life, though that pleasure has been for the most part mingled with sorrow.-Olaudah Equiano

About this title

About the Author:

First African and then Western slave traders brought his Edenic childhood experiences to an end. Kidnapped, he was taken away from the womb-like Gemeinshaft and his father's compound in which he had been favored and nurtured. Commodified, he was placed in the hold of a slave ship for the brutal journey through the Middle Passage to the 'New World,' where the ultimate symbol of his status were the various names he was given by slave masters whose 'ownership' of him empowered them to desecrate his name.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wilder Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1604592419
• ISBN 13: 9781604592412
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148