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 ...
Olaudah Equiano earned enough to buy his way out of slavery and became a leading abolitionist A river bridge in Cambridge has been renamed after an African anti-slavery activist Olaudah Equiano in ...