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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

And unlike her fellow trans-Atlantic African Olaudah Equiano ... s narrative: that Wheatley helped facilitate the trip to London in 1773 that led to her freedom, and that her post-slavery life ...