An exciting and often terrifying adventure story and a precursor to the famous
nineteenth-century slave narratives Equiano's The Interesting Narrative recounts his
kidnapping in Africa aged ten his service as a slave of an officer in the British Navy for ten
years and his life after he bought his freedom in 1766 growing to become one of the foremost
figures of the anti-slavery movement in Britain.The Interesting Narrative is a spirited
autobiography a tale of spiritual quest and fulfillment and a sophisticated treatise on
religion politics and economics.
