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“Unraveling the Narrative”

December 30, 2005

Did the author of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano…,” one of the 18th century’s seminal slave narratives, fabricate his experience of life in Africa and the Middle Passage? U-MD English professor Vincent Carretta thinks maybe so, and others aren’t so happy about it. Read a transcript of an online chat with Carretta.

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