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 ...

Nigel Clarke celebrates the life and work of the eighteenth century anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, once an enslaved person himself. Hi, I'm Nigel, and I'm a TV presenter. I was born and ...

1789: Olaudah Equiano's autobiography In 1789, Equiano published his autobiography, which detailed his experiences of enslavement. Equiano embarked on a lecture tour through Ireland, Scotland and ...

In his autobiography - The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African - he wrote that he was born in Eboe province, in what is now southern Nigeria.

F. N., Okechukwu and A. O., Ugochukwu 2024. Man as Nature’s Prodigal: A Study of Environmental Degradation in South East Nigeria, 1990-2022. Journal of Advanced ...

Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage. Athens ... The Tshi-Speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast of West Africa. Anthropological Publications. Equiano, Olaudah, 1837. The Interesting ...

His 1789 autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, sold nine editions during his life and was influential in the passage of the British Slave Trade Act 1807 which ...

Narratives by formerly enslaved writers like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and ... Douglass’ memoir as largely ...

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Olaudah Equiano arrives in a shuttle of dizzying footwork; his autobiography of enslavement literally rocks Georgian Britain on its heels. The most cohesive section centres on the predations of ...