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Olaudah Equiano

Born

in Essaka, Benin

January 01, 1745

Died

March 31, 1797

Genre

Poetry, Abolitionism, Biographies & Memoirs

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Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa, was one of the most prominent Africans involved in the British movement of the abolition for the slave trade. Although enslaved as a young man, he purchased his freedom and worked as an author, merchant, and explorer in South America, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the American colonies, and the United Kingdom.

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	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano 3.74 avg rating — 14,738 ratings — published 1789 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kidnapped Prince: The Life of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano, Ann Cameron (adapted by) 3.78 avg rating — 730 ratings — published 1789 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sold as a Slave 3.47 avg rating — 182 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by Himself Volume I 3.79 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2012 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Early Black British Writing by Olaudah Equiano, Mary Prince, Debbie Lee 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THE INTERESTING NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF OLAUDAH EQUIANO, OR GUSTAVUS VASSA, THE AFRICAN.: WRITTEN BY HIMSELF 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	By Olaudah Equiano - The Life of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, the African 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life of Olaudah Equiano: Sold into Slavery for Seashells and Lived to Petition the Queen of England as a Free man by Olaudah Equiano, Andre Davis (Foreword) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano: Or Gustavus Vassa, The African by Olaudah Equiano, Archived Classics (editor), Raven Thorne (contributor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Letters and Other Writings of Gustav Vassaus by Olaudah Equiano, Kerlee Anne Sapoznik (Editor), Paul E. Lovejoy (Foreword) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...and I had a great curiosity to talk to the books, as I thought they did; and so to learn how all things had a beginning: for that purpose I have often taken up a book, and have talked to it, and then put my ears to it, when alone, in hopes it would answer me; and I have been very much concerned when I found it remained silent.”
― Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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“My life had lost its relish when liberty was gone.”
― Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, written by Himself Volume I

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“When we have had some of these slaves on board my master's vessels to carry them to other islands, or to America, I have known our mates to commit these acts most shamefully, to the disgrace, not of Christians only, but of men. I have even known them gratify their brutal passion with females not ten years old; and these abominations some of them practised to such scandalous excess, that one of our captains discharged the mate and others on that account.”
― Olaudah Equiano

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18 votes, 7.3%

The Odd Women by George Gissing, 1893, 432 pages

15 votes, 6.1%

Life Is a Dream: Pedro Calderon de La Barca by Pedro Calderón de la Barca,1636, 96 pages

14 votes, 5.7%

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: Written by Himself by Olaudah Equiano, 1789, 256 pages

7 votes, 2.8%

247 total votes

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