by Olaudah Equiano
By his own account born in what is now south-eastern Nigeria, Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped as a child and enslaved, bought his own freedom and wrote this account to help end the slave trade. One of the first books by an African author in English.
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"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano" by Olaudah Equiano (first published 1789). Public domain.
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