The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself.
By Olaudah Equiano
- Release Date: 2013-07-13
- Genre: U.S. History
Description
Olaudah Equiano's narrative is about his own experience away from his dear home. The slave trade from the very beginning was one of the worst components of European history. This narrative is a moving but an important historical document that recounts the hardship the slaves had to endure and survive in their nightmare to the so called New World.
"In this way I grew up till I had turned the age of eleven, when an end was put to my happiness….” This way began the Olaudah's odyssey after been kidnapped and taken through many African countries reaching finally the African west coast and the slave ship that brought him/them to the West Indies and North America.