The premise of Making Crooked Paths Straight is that Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself (1789) is more than unadorned prose written by a simple minded former enslaved African who, in the end, desired to emulate the ways of his former English enslavers, obfuscate his identity, and merely be a financially successful bookseller and businessman. Throughout this study,...