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 ...

have worked really hard to shape British history and have made a real difference. This is the story of just one of them - the awesome Olaudah Equiano, who lived more than 200 years ago.

Equiano was born in Essaka, a small village in Benin, in 1745. His father was an Embrenche, an elder or chief, and oversaw disputes and punishments. He had five brothers and one sister, and was ...

February is Black History Month, which began as “Negro History Week ... A 1793 version of The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano is part of Duke University Libraries collection.

In the everlasting faceoff between Black history and America’s self-conception ... Narratives by formerly enslaved writers ...

Olaudah Equiano earned enough to buy his way out of ... with Riverside in Cambridge As part of activities for Black History Month, the new name plaque and an information board have been unveiled ...

These are dark, contested histories, and yet they need to be told in multiple ways, on multiple levels,” said Charles ...

Britain's history curriculum is causing social division because ... minority figures such as 'pioneer nurse' Mary Seacole and the African abolitionist Olaudah Equiano from the national curriculum, ...

Joy Labinjo's painting of abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, with his wife Susanna Cullen, has been hung beside the 18th Century portraits it relates to The "rich and diverse history" of art from the ...

Romancing with history The historical romance genre has ... as Britain's abolitionist movement gained steam, Olaudah Equiano, a former slave who had been stolen as a child in Africa, pleaded ...

This sprawlingly ambitious dance show certainly delivers atmosphere. Forty years ago, the Chatham dockyard shut up shop, ...

It should be noted that although each of the six has made a significant contribution to British history not all of them are actually British by birth. Olaudah Equiano was born in modern-day ...