![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Excerpts from the book now appear in every anthology and on any website covering American, African-American, British, and Caribbean history and literature of the eighteenth century. Equiano’s autobiography is universally accepted as the fundamental text in the genre of the slave narrative. In his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, he tells the story of his youth in an African village, his kidnapping, his. Written by Himself” as one of the most accomplished English-speaking writers of African descent. In 1789, he released his autobiography ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African’. Over the past thirty-five years, historians, literary critics, and the general public have come to recognize the author of “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. This is particularly true when one takes into consideration the fact that Olaudah Equiano was one of the first Black writers to record the African and the. ![]()
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