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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African

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Author	Olaudah Equiano
Country	Great Britain
Language	English
Genre	Autobiography, slave narrative
Publication date	1789
OCLC	23633870
Dewey Decimal	305.567092
LC Class	HT869.E6 A3 1794
Text	The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African at Wikisource

The green plaque at Riding House Street, London, commemorates where Equiano lived and published his narrative.

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), an African from what is now Nigeria who was enslaved in childhood and eventually earned his freedom and became an abolitionist in the United Kingdom.

The narrative is argued to represent a variety of styles, such as a slavery narrative, travel narrative, and spiritual narrative. The book describes Equiano's time spent in enslavement, and documents his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his own freedom and in business thereafter.