click image for close-up This portrait of Olaudah Equiano was used as the frontispiece (illustration opposite a book's title page) of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ...

Equiano was born in Essaka, a small village in Benin, in 1745. His father was an Embrenche, an elder or chief, and oversaw disputes and punishments. He had five brothers and one sister, and was ...

F. N., Okechukwu and A. O., Ugochukwu 2024. Man as Nature’s Prodigal: A Study of Environmental Degradation in South East Nigeria, 1990-2022. Journal of Advanced ...

It was the first book written in the English language by an African, and it was called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. The stories in the book were so powerful that ...

Douglass’ book sold 30,000 copies by 1860 and was ... Equiano’s 1789 “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah ...

Rare books, pamphlets and papers ... A 1793 version of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is part of Duke University Libraries collection. Photo by Stephen Schramm. Originally ...

Olaudah Equiano earned enough to buy his way out of slavery and became a leading abolitionist A river bridge in Cambridge has been renamed after an African anti-slavery activist Olaudah Equiano in ...

published his autobiography 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano' in 1789. This book became a best seller and changed many people’s views of the slave trade In 1831 ...

It features the black 18th Century abolitionist Olaudah Equiano with his wife Susanna Cullen and their daughters. Equiano met his wife in Cambridge in July 1789 during his book tour. She was from ...

In Kwame Alexander’s new verse novel and Karen L. Swanson’s nonfiction picture book, Black girls pursue their dreams of playing big-league baseball. By Abby McGanney Nolan How do you explain ...

These books dispense practical advice on managing one’s ambitions—or describe the dread of writer’s block with precision and humor. A short story has velocity and verve, and the best ones ...

By J. D. Biersdorfer Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir. By Sarah Lyall A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight ...