The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African

About this book

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, an African from what is now Nigeria who was enslaved in childhood and eventually earned his freedom and became an abolitionist in the United Kingdom.

Information

Publisher
Delhi Open Book
Year
2024
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9789362968456
Subtopic
Classics
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Title
  2. Chapter 1 - The author's account of his country, their manners and customs, &c.
  3. Chapter 2 - The author's birth and parentage--His being kidnapped with his sister--Horrors of a slave ship
  4. Chapter 3 - The author is carried to Virginia--Arrives in England--His wonder at a fall of snow
  5. Chapter 4 - A particular account of the celebrated engagement between Admiral Boscawen and Monsieur Le Clue
  6. Chapter 5 - Various interesting instances of oppression, cruelty, and extortion
  7. Chapter 6 - Favourable change in the author's situation--He commences merchant with threepence
  8. Chapter 7 - The author's disgust at the West Indies--Forms schemes to obtain his freedom
  9. Chapter 8 - Three remarkable dreams--The author is shipwrecked on the Bahama-bank
  10. Chapter 9 - The author arrives at Martinico--Meets with new difficulties, and sails for England
  11. Chapter 10 - Some account of the manner of the author's conversion to the faith of Jesus Christ
  12. Chapter 11 - Picking up eleven miserable men at sea in returning to England
  13. Chapter 12 - Different transactions of the author's life--Petition to the Queen--Conclusion
  14. Footnotes

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