Equiano claimed his own freedom and became an important abolitionist, but his Narrative is much more than merely a political pamphlet. He takes part in naval engagements, isshipwrecked, and has other exciting adventures on his travels to the Caribbean, America, and the Arctic. Equiano was slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker merchant, and he vividly depicts the appalling treatment of enslaved people at sea and on land. I pray it may be an event at hand.'Published a few days before the British parliament first debated the abolition of the slave trade in 1789, Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative gives the author's account of his enslavement after his childhood kidnapping in Africa, and his journey from slavery to freedom. 'I hope the slave trade may be abolished.
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