EQUIANO, THE AFRICAN: Biography of a Self-Made Man

Tells the story of the former slave Olaudah Equiano, who was the English-speaking world's most renowned person of African descent, and his greatest legacy is his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself. A key document of the early movement to ban the slave trade, as well as the fundamental text in the genre of the African American slave narrative. Illus.