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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."

The author's account of his country, their manners and customs, &c. -- The author's birth and parentage ; His being kidnapped with his sister ; Horrors of a slave ship -- The author is carried to Virginia ; Arrives in England ; His wonder at a fall of snow -- A particular account of the celebrated engagement between Admiral Boscawen and Monsieur Le Clue -- Various interesting instances of oppression, cruelty, and extortion -- Favourable change in the author's situation--He commences merchant with threepence -- The author's disgust at the West Indies--Forms schemes to obtain his freedom -- Three remarkable dreams--The author is shipwrecked on the Bahama-bank -- The author arrives at Martinico--Meets with new difficulties, and sails for England -- Some account of the manner of the author's conversion to the faith of Jesus Christ -- Picking up eleven miserable men at sea in returning to England -- Different transactions of the author's life--Petition to the Queen.