Sold as a Slave - Great Journeys Author:Olaudah Equiano He has never even heard of white men, or of Europeans, or of the sea, when one night a small African boy is kidnapped from his village, tied up and put into a sack. From there he finds himself in the hold of a slave ship bound for the West Indies, chained to hundreds of others, longing for death. But Olaudah Equiano does not die. One day he will... more » journey to freedom...
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