Olaudah Equiano led a tumultuous life ... beside the Thames on the Pepys Estate. Here, a sculptural collection known as the Wall of Ancestors by Martin Bond shows the faces of 16 people with ...

“Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit” was once presumed to portray Olaudah Equiano, perhaps the greatest, yet least well-known, former slave who rose to glory. Equiano wrote in a 1789 memoir that ...

In 1789, Olaudah Equiano published a memoir titled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. Equiano had been abducted from ...

Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa, The African, is celebrated and remembered around the nation for his contributions to the abolition of slavery. But in no place is Equiano’s life and legacy ...

Olaudah Equiano earned enough to buy his way out of slavery and became a leading abolitionist A river bridge in Cambridge has been renamed after an African anti-slavery activist Olaudah Equiano in ...

Narratives by formerly enslaved writers like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup were critical to shedding light on the otherwise unthinkable realities of enslavement.