Equiano's Travels: His Autobiography : the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Or Gustavus Vassa, the AfricanPearson Education, 1969 - 198 pages Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in a village east of the Niger River in what is now Nigeria. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African was published in London in 1789. This is his own account of a remarkable life. At the age of ten he was captured by slave-traders and taken to the southern states of America. He was sold to a planter in the West Indies and worked there and aboard slave ships sailing between the Caribbean and England. At the age of twenty-one he had saved enough money to buy his freedom. He visited the Mediterranean, took part in Phipps' expedition to the Arctic in 1773 and crossed the Atlantic several times. He was an ardent member of the Movement for the Abolition of Slavery and was appointed Commissary for Stores when the freed slaves were settled in Sierra Leone. This abridged edition has a new introduction by Professor Ogude of the University of Benin, together with explanatory notes on the text. |
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... astonishment , I saw one of these vessels coming in with the sails up . As soon as the whites saw it they gave a great shout , at which we were amazed ; and the more so as the vessel appeared larger by approaching nearer . At last she ...
... astonishment , I saw one of these vessels coming in with the sails up . As soon as the whites saw it they gave a great shout , at which we were amazed ; and the more so as the vessel appeared larger by approaching nearer . At last she ...
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... astonished on seeing people on horse- back . I did not know what this could mean , and indeed I thought these people were full of nothing but magical arts . While I was in this astonishment one of my fellow prisoners spoke to a ...
... astonished on seeing people on horse- back . I did not know what this could mean , and indeed I thought these people were full of nothing but magical arts . While I was in this astonishment one of my fellow prisoners spoke to a ...
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... astonished at seeing this woman in a dream that night , though a person I never before beheld in my life ; this made such an impression on me that I could not get the idea the next day out of my mind , and I then became as anxious to ...
... astonished at seeing this woman in a dream that night , though a person I never before beheld in my life ; this made such an impression on me that I could not get the idea the next day out of my mind , and I then became as anxious to ...
Table des matières
My Early Life in Eboe I | 1 |
Kidnapped | 15 |
Voyage to England | 33 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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