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Olaudah Equiano was sold into slavery, later acquired his freedom, and, in 1789, wrote his widely-read autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa ...

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 ...

'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by himself', 6th edition, London, 1793. The author is an enslaved African who escapes slavery.

It was the first book written in the English language by an African, and it was called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. The stories in the book were so powerful that ...

“I had never heard of white men or Europeans, nor of the sea”, he recalled later in life. In his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African ...

Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in Essaka, Benin, today's Southeastern Nigeria. By the 18th century the Atlantic Slave Trade was at its height with millions being kidnapped from the West Coast of ...

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.

In the 1780s he emerged as the most prominent spokesman for the black community living in London. His autobiographical Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, which makes a strong case ...