Interesting Narrative

''I hope the slave trade may be abolished. 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. Equiano was slave to a captain in the Roy...