Captured far from the African coast when he was a boy of 11, Olaudah Equiano was sold into slavery, later acquired his freedom, and, in 1789, wrote his widely-read autobiography, The Interesting ...

Equiano was born in Essaka, a small village in Benin, in 1745. His father was an Embrenche, an elder or chief, and oversaw disputes and punishments. He had five brothers and one sister, and was ...

The Sid Lapidus, '59 Collection on Liber... The Sid Lapidus, '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution The interesting narrative of the life of... London : Printed for and sold by the ...

Nigel Clarke celebrates the life and work of the eighteenth century anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, once an enslaved person himself. Hi, I'm Nigel, and I'm a TV presenter. I was born and ...

Olaudah Equiano: I was enslaved for many years in the West Indies and America. I bought my freedom in 1766 and settled in Britain. I became friends with many of the British abolitionists such as ...

The 12th Century church hosted the 1792 marriage of Olaudah Equiano, a freed slave whose autobiography was crucial to the abolitionist movement. In 2018, it was placed on the At Risk register and ...

This was also seen by some as a good way of disposing of a troublesome minority. Olaudah Equiano was appointed commissary of provisions and stores for the emigrant poor going to Sierra Leone.

700) to Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1788). A central goal of the class is to approach literary texts as creative expressions ...