Olaudah Equiano Publishes Bestselling Autobiography

Olaudah Equiano publishes 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano' in London, describing his childhood in the Igbo kingdom, Middle Passage, enslavement, self-purchase of freedom, and seafaring life. The book sells through nine editions in his lifetime, is translated across Europe, and becomes the most influential slave narrative before Frederick Douglass.