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Nearer My Freedom: The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano by Himself
Monica Edinger and Lesley Younge
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Zest Books/Lerner
ISBN: 978-1-7284-5098-8
Keywords: Slavery, enslavement, memoir, verse
The 18th-century autobiography of an African from his capture and enslavement as a child to his liberation and life as a free man. In found verse. Archival images. Endnotes, primary sources, annotations.