An image of Olaudah Equiano featured in the frontispiece of his memoir. Wikimedia Commons There is a painting in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in England that tends to make onlookers stop.

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 ...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African was published in 1789 (the second part of its title alluding to Equiano’s slave name) and immediately ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 might be the most important rum blender working today. Here are our thoughts on their latest release.

Olaudah Equiano: Who was the African author whose autobiography exposed the realities of the slave trade? Freed slave whose autobiography brought horror at the heart of empire to the attention of ...

AFTER facing true hardship, Olaudah Equiano forged an extraordinary life and legacy and wrote a book which helped change the world for the better. A Google Doodle is celebrating the 272nd birthday … ...