The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African

Equiano's account of kidnapping, enslavement, freedom and abolition. Equiano describes his childhood in West Africa, his kidnapping, the Middle Passage and years enslaved at sea, and how he bought his own freedom. A bestseller in 1789, it became a vital document of the British campaign to abolish the slave trade.