The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Author: Equiano, Olaudah
ISBN: 9780375761157
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 May 2004
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
This important 18th century slave narrative could be described as the British version of Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom. Our unique features include an Introduction by Professor Robert Reid-Pharr, and newly commissioned endnotes.
Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative "is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence," writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. "He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic."
The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the author's final changes to his masterwork.
ISBN: 9780375761157
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 15 May 2004
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback / softback
This important 18th century slave narrative could be described as the British version of Frederick Douglass's My Bondage and My Freedom. Our unique features include an Introduction by Professor Robert Reid-Pharr, and newly commissioned endnotes.
Edited and with Notes by Shelly Eversley
Introduction by Robert Reid-Pharr
In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative "is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence," writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. "He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic."
The text of this Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the definitive ninth edition of 1794, reflecting the author's final changes to his masterwork.
