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Intro -- About Apollo Africa -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction to the New Edition -- Editor's Introduction -- Chapter 1: My Early Life in Eboe -- Chapter 2: Kidnapped -- Chapter 3: The Slave Ship -- Chapter 4: Voyage to England -- Chapter 5: War at Sea -- Chapter 6: Hope and Despair -- Chapter 7: Masters and Slaves -- Chapter 8: West Indian Voyages -- Chapter 9: Free Man -- Chapter 10: Shipwreck in the Bahamas -- Chapter 11: Return to Europe -- Chapter 12: Arctic Exploration -- Chapter 13: The Musquito Indians -- Chapter 14: A Rough Road to Freedom -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Notes -- An Invitation from the Publisher.

In this truly astonishing eighteenth-century memoir, Olaudah Equiano recounts his remarkable life story, which begins when he is kidnapped in Africa as a boy and sold into slavery and culminates when he has achieved renown as a British antislavery advocate. The narrative "is a strikingly beautiful monument to the startling combination of skill, cunning, and plain good luck that allowed him to win his freedom, write his story, and gain international prominence," writes Robert Reid-Pharr in his Introduction. "He alerts us to the very concerns that trouble modern intellectuals, black, white, and otherwise, on both sides of the Atlantic."