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 ...

click image for close-up This portrait of Olaudah Equiano was used as the frontispiece (illustration opposite a book's title page) of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ...

By 1765, Olaudah was sold on to London ship’s captain James Doran, who set sail for Montserrat aboard the Charming Sally, where he was traded again, this time to Robert King, a well-to-do Quaker ...

Olaudah Equiano died in 1797, a decade before the Slave Trade Act began the process of outlawing slavery. He was buried in nearby Whitfield Gardens, that small patch of open land immediately north ...

A KS1 (ages 5-7) lesson about Olaudah Equiano. Nigel Clarke celebrates the life and work of the eighteenth century anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, once an enslaved person himself. Hi, I'm ...

Equiano died in 1797, 10 years before parliament outlawed the British slave trade. It was almost 30 years later that slavery itself was abolished in British territories. There are some places in the ...

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 ...

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

Olaudah Equiano led a tumultuous life. Born around 1745 in the Kingdom of Benin (now Southern Nigeria), he was kidnapped and sold into slavery aged 11. He survived the transatlantic journey to ...