The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
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DISCOVER THE INDIGNITIES AND REALITIES OF SLAVERY FROM A CAPTIVATING FIRST-HAND NARRATIVE Olaudah Equiano’s interesting narrative is an astonishing first-hand account of kidnapping, enslavement and eventual emancipation that has horrified and enlightened readers for over 200 years. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano is a seminal work in a genre that seeks to help us better shape the present by understanding our violent past. An insightful Introduction from Atlantic slave trade expert Michael Taylor sheds light on Equiano’s life, including his spiritual conversion, his wide travels, and the impact of his writing on the eventual abolition of slavery.

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Olaudah Equiano. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano

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THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO. The Black History Classic

INTRODUCTION

ENSLAVEMENT

WITNESS OF HISTORY

BUSINESS VENTURES AND FREEDOM

EMERGING ABOLITIONIST

THE NARRATIVE

EQUIANO THE CHRISTIAN

EQUIANO AND ECONOMICS

THE NARRATIVE'S IMPACT

AFTERMATH AND LEGACY

FURTHER READING

NOTE ON THE TEXT

NOTE

ABOUT MICHAEL TAYLOR

ABOUT TOM BUTLER-BOWDON

LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS

I

NOTES

II

III

IV

NOTES

V

NOTES

VI

VOLUME II

VII

NOTE

VIII

IX

X

NOTES

XI

XII

NOTES

EXPLANATORY NOTES. CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 4

CHAPTER 5

CHAPTER 6

CHAPTER 8

CHAPTER 9

CHAPTER 11

CHAPTER 12

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OLAUDAH EQUIANO

With an Introduction by

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As the opening passages of the Narrative make clear, slavery was nothing new to Equiano. At home in Benin, the houses of masters and their slaves made up the towns and villages. Equiano's own father had been a slaveholder, and the local slave trade was frequently the cause of ‘irruptions of one little state or district into another’. Yet in Equiano's view there were plain differences between African slavery and that into which Europeans forced him and so many millions of others. For one thing, Equiano almost appears to regard African enslavement as justifiable. ‘Sometimes indeed we sold slaves to them’, he writes of his neighbours, ‘but they were only prisoners of war, or such among us who had been convicted of kidnapping, or adultery, and some other crimes, which we esteemed heinous.’ In short, slavery was dependent on the character of the person, not their skin colour. ‘But how different was their condition from that of the slaves in the West Indies!’ Equiano exclaims. ‘With us they do no more work than other members of the community, even their masters; their food, clothing and lodging were nearly the same as theirs … Some of these slaves have even slaves under them as property, and for their own use.’

This contrasted sharply with what Equiano experienced at the hands of British slave traders. Just as Mary Prince would later educate British readers on the atrocities inflicted upon enslaved people in the West Indies of the 1820s, Equiano gave the readers of the 1780s a painful and often shocking account of the odious commerce. ‘Slaves are sometimes, by half-feeding, half-clothing, over-working and stripes, reduced so low’, he lamented, ‘that they are turned out as unfit for service, and left to perish in the woods, or expire on a dunghill.’ This hatred of slavery would not, however, prevent Equiano from buying enslaved people to work on the plantation that he sought to establish on the Mosquito Coast. Moreover, when Equiano eventually abandoned the project it was not because this apparent toleration of slavery had expired. Rather, it was because he disliked the lifestyle: ‘our mode of procedure and living in this heathenish form’ he writes, was ‘very irksome’.

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