One example that gives me hope is on the Instagram page @equiano.stories. It tells the story of Olaudah Equiano (the source of the first quote) as a young boy through an Instagram film.

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It will begin by focusing on Olaudah Equiano, one of the most famous Black abolitionists of the 18th Century, whose powerful testimony was vital to the British anti-slavery campaign.

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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.

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.

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 ...