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Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself Immigration & Refugees Coming of Age Family - Parents “A truly rare cultural phenomenon:Permit me to lay at your feetthe following genuineNarrative . . .Olaudah Equiano was a writer and abolitionist whose autobiography, The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano, captured the attention of British readers at the height of the transatlantic slave trade. The account of his childhood in the African kingdom of Benin, the details of his kidnapping and enslavement as a young boy, and the chronicles of his life as a sailor were influential in