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 ...

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 ...

Olaudah Equiano: I was enslaved for many years in the West Indies and America. I bought my freedom in 1766 and settled in Britain. I became friends with many of the British abolitionists such as ...

Rare books, pamphlets and papers, illustrating the story of Black lives and experiences ... A 1793 version of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is part of Duke University ...

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 ...

In 1991, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote to the editors of "The Reader's Companion: A Book Lover's Guide to the Most Important Books in Every Field of Knowledge as Chosen by Experts" to ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Sanora Babb’s interviews about the Dust Bowl informed “The Grapes of Wrath.” The book’s success led to the cancellation of her own book contract. “Riding Like the Wind” tells her life ...