Interesting indeed! This is auto-biography, the story of Olaudah Equiano's experiences of being kidnapped as a young boy in Africa and transported to America as a slave, buying his freedom and living in England, and eventually becoming a Christian. Along the way he works on British navy ships as the slave of a Captain and recounts some of his seagoing experiences.
His book made him a well-known (but not always popular) public figure of his time, and a spokesperson for the abolition of slavery.
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