Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano
Himself by Monica Edinger, Lesley Younge
This found-verse account retells the eighteenth-century autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, an African man who was taken captive and enslaved as a child. It follows his journey to freedom and life as a free man, while placing his narrative amid the transatlantic slave trade. Equiano is presented as a writer and abolitionist whose autobiography reached British readers. Archival images, primary-source material, endnotes, and annotations accompany the text.
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