The Sid Lapidus, '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution The interesting narrative of the life of... London : Printed for and sold by the author, No. 20, Union-Street, Middlesex Hospital ...

It was here that he entered the history books by campaigning for the abolition of slavery and later writing a stirring autobiography: "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano ...

“Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit” was once presumed to portray Olaudah Equiano ... democracy and an enslaver’s regime. Equiano’s life story presents a few mysteries.

Equiano’s 1789 “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself,” which is sometimes considered the forebear of narratives on ...

It was the first book written in the English language by an African, and it was called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. The stories in the book were so powerful that ...

That was followed by seminal works like, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (1789);” “The History of Mary Prince ...

In 1789, Olaudah Equiano published a memoir titled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. Equiano had been abducted from ...

In his autobiography - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African - he wrote that he was born in Eboe province, in what is now southern Nigeria.

He kept those gallery gloves on to handle their “scary rare” 1882 edition of “The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass,” but he still wasn’t being delicate enough for Shirley’s liking.