The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
by Olaudah Equiano
First dispatch from the slave trade. He survived.
you want to understand the Atlantic slave trade as a human experience rather than a historical abstraction
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Equiano was born Igbo in what is now Nigeria, enslaved as a child, transported across the Atlantic, sold multiple times, and eventually bought his own freedom. He published his autobiography in 1789 and it became a foundational text of the abolitionist movement. The first book in the African literary tradition in English. The most important dispatch from inside the Middle Passage ever written — not history looking back but a man telling you what it was like from inside it, in his own words, while the trade was still happening.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- Nigeria • West Africa
- Voice
- Written by a Nigerian author
- Themes
- Founding LiesWitness
