The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Rev) ( Penguin Cla

The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (Rev) ( Penguin Classics )

Contributor(s): Equiano, Olaudah (Author), Carretta, Vincent (Editor)

ISBN: 0142437166 EAN: 9780142437162

Publisher: Penguin Books (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 13.00 US

Binding: Paperback

Pub Date: May 27, 2003

Publisher Marketing: Completely revised and edited with an introduction and notes by Vincent Carretta An exciting and often terrifying adventure story, as well as an important precursor to such famous nineteenth-century slave narratives as Frederick Douglass's autobiographies, Olaudah Equiano's The InterestingNarrative recounts his kidnapping in Africa at the age of ten, his service as the slave of an officer in the British Navy, his ten years of labor on slave ships until he was able to purchase his freedom in 1766, and his life afterward as a leading and respected figure in the antislavery movement in England. A spirited autobiography, a tale of spiritual quest and fulfillment, and a sophisticated treatise on religion, politics, and economics, The Interesting Narrative is a work of enduring literary and historical value.