OUR ROOTS – Equiano Olaudah. Olaudah Equiano was a remarkable person in British history.He was snatched from his home, country and culture in West Africa at the age of eleven and not only did he ...

Freed slave whose autobiography brought horror at the heart of empire to the attention of millions was born 272 years ago today ...

By 1789, the year he published his autobiography, Olaudah Equiano was a well-known abolitionist. Ten years after his death in 1797, the English slave trade was finally abolished.

His memoir, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,” was an instant success, going through nine editions. To this day, Equiano’s work shimmers as a literary masterpiece ...

Olaudah Equiano, who was known as Gustavus Vassa for most of his life, was a prominent African in London whose autobiography helped to end the slave trade in Britain. Google marks the 272nd ...

Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Olaudah Equiano who was a freed slave who supported the movement to end the slave trade in England. In 1789, he published his autobiography which helped create ...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano first appeared in London in 1789 and went through nine editions, one of them in New York, over the next six years. The stark account given ...

Equiano Rum is putting out some of the finest expressions in rum today. ... The brand also highlights to work of 18th-century abolitionist, scholar, and writer Olaudah Equiano.

Google’s latest Doodle marks what would have been the 272nd birthday of Olaudah Equiano (1746-1797), the African writer whose memoir gave the world one of its first accounts of the slave trade ...