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Why is the first-hand account, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano important?

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As a whole, Equiano's work shows both broad human compassion and racism.He published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), which depicted the horrors of slavery. It went through nine editions in his lifetime and helped gain passage of the British Slave Trade Act 1807, which abolished the slave trade.

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