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 ...

In his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African (first published in 1789), Equiano recalled that he and the other village children would ...

By 1788 an anti slave trade petition is presented to Queen Charlotte by Olaudah and the next year he published his autobiography. When thinking of the great storyteller and abolitionist Oluadah ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Olaudah Equiano was born in Essaka, in what is now southeastern Nigeria. He was kidnapped into slavery at the age of eleven and put to work for a number of different masters in America, the West ...

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

Olaudah Equiano was one of them. Born in Africa, Equiano was kidnapped when he was about 10 years old. But he later purchased his own freedom, wrote a bestselling autobiography and arrived in Ireland ...

Olaudah Equiano was one of them. Born in Africa, Equiano was kidnapped when he was about 10 years old. But he later purchased ...