1745-

The biography of Olaudah Equiano, the young African boy who was kidnapped, hidden in an enormous sack, and carried off into slavery, and his struggle with injustice, heartbreak, and his own despair as well as his triumph because of his courage, intelligence, love of adventure, and his unconquerable faith.

A slave narrative written in 1788 by Olaudah Equiano, in which he tells about his childhood in Nigeria, his capture by slave traders, and his years as a slave in the West Indies, America, and in the British navy before becoming a free man in 1766.