This is the origin story of Olaudah Equiano, a youth kidnapped from his West African home in 1756 and enslaved.

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.

In his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, he tells the story of his youth in an African village, his kidnapping, his being ...

Therein lies the mystery: Because if the man who penned "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself" was not Afri ...

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 ...

It would look a lot like Equiano Stories, a collaboration between the DuSable Museum of African American History and Stelo Stories Film Studio.

Olaudah Equiano’s Argument Against Slavery Was His Life Experience Eric Washington The Igbo writer wrote honestly about the brutality of his experience—and of the Christian faith 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 an ...

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 ...

The History of American Slavery The Interesting Narrative Olaudah Equiano’s epic book tour for his bestselling firsthand account of slavery changed the British abolitionist movement.