This paper examines Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African by focusing on his experience as a transnational traveler across the Atlantic Ocean to explore the complex interrelationship between sea travel and a colored man's mobile subjectivity. Emerging as a forced and enslaved traveler, transplanted and transported from Africa to the Americas and Europe, Equiano spends most of his life sailing across the Atlantic performing multiple roles in multicultural and multifunctional space, not only as a slave, but also as a sailor, a merchant, a trader, and an abolitionist. Equiano is able to transform his painful experience of travel into an opportunity to celebrate mobility by tactically employing it as the foundation for a newly-gained self-agency that allows him to speak on behalf of his fellows who cannot speak for themselves. Furthermore, by creating a hybrid genre that combines slave narrative, travel narrative, and sailor’s log, Equiano deliberately blurs the boundaries that would bind him into a single category and thereby proves that hybridity is not something to be feared, but a chance to begin a new and creative life.