Published in 1789, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is one of the most important books in the history of abolitionism and one of the first autobiographies by a person of African descent to reach a wide readership in Britain and America. Equiano describes his childhood in what is now Nigeria, his enslavement and the horrors of the Middle Passage, years of labor in the Caribbean and North America, and his eventual self-purchase of freedom.
A powerful, eloquent, and historically crucial text, the narrative was instrumental in building British public opinion against the slave trade. This free EPUB download makes this essential document of human history accessible to all.