Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading)

The Interesting Narrative, published in 1789 to considerable acclaim, has been compared to Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe and reviewed by Mary Wollstonecraft. Equianos life and work took shape in an era of revolution—against slavery, against injustice, against tyranny. Moreover, Equianos Narrative was deeply informed by the forces that have given the modern nation-state its present recognizable cha...