Purchasing His Freedom

From The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano by Olaudah Equiano
In 1766 Equiano, having saved through trading, pays Robert King forty pounds sterling for his manumission, a climactic moment of self-emancipation.
Chapter 7

The scene of receiving his manumission paper, his ecstatic comparison of his feelings to Elijah mounted on a chariot and his dancing for joy.

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