Ebook: Sold as a slave
Author: Equiano Olaudah
- Tags: Equiano Olaudah -- 1745-1797 -- Travel., Freedmen -- Travel -- West Indies., Equiano Olaudah.
- Series: Great journeys (Penguin (Firm)) no. 8
- Year: 2007
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- City: London, West Indies
- Language: English
- epub
In an adventurous and extraordinary life, Equiano (c.1745-c.1797) criss-crossed the Atlantic world, from West Africa to the Caribbean to the USA to Britain, either as a slave or fighting with the Royal Navy. His account of his life is not only one of the great documents of the abolition movement, but also a startling, moving story of danger and betrayal.
Abstract:
Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Read more...
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