The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or Gustavus Vassa, the African.
By Olaudah Equiano

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London : Olaudah Equiano, 1789 Our text is based on the Text Creation Partnership’s digital edition which was produced from microfilm scans of the copy of the second point edition of 1789, published in London by Equiano himself and held at the British Library in London. The page images are from the copy of the same edition held at the Alfred Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia. We have also consulted the Oxford University Press edition edited by Brycchan Carey (2018). Annotations have been provided by faculty and students at the University of Virginia.

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Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano: or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Olaudah Equiano, 1789 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthology.lib.virginia.edu/work/Equiano/equiano-interesting-narrative. Accessed: 2024-03-29T15:12:32.975Z

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[Frontispiece] Olaudah Equiano
or
Gustavus Vassa,
the African
Published March 1 1789 by G. Vassa
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