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Free eBook Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa,was a prominent Nigerian in London, a freed slave who supported the British movement to end the slave trade.
Equiano’s Travels Olaudah Equiano is an African author born in Essaka, an Igbo village in Benin which is currently known as Nigeria. As a young boy of only 11 years, Equiano together with his sister were captured and sold into slavery.
Equiano was criticized for his role in this failure, but he protests quite firmly that he was blameless. He was honored to present a petition to the Queen calling attention to the atrocities of the slave trade, and asking for its abolition. He also spent time in Wales, and married Miss Susanna Cullen in 1791.
Equiano became a prominent political figure in Britain, as a voice for poor Africans. His words were frequently printed in the leading newspapers of the time. After 1794, Equiano largely lived off of proceeds from the sales of his book. Equiano married Susanna Cullen on April 7th, 1792. They had two daughters, Anna Maria and Joanna. He died in.
Olaudah Equiano 1 January 2017 The Horrid Journey If it were not for the stories past down from generation to generation or the documentations in historical books, the history of the twelve million African slaves that traveled the “Middle Passage” in miserable conditions would not exist.
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Olaudah Equiano: An Illustrated Biography Almost everything we know about the first ten years of Equiano's life we find from Equiano's own account in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, published in 1789.In this, Equiano tells us that he was born around the year 1745 in an area called 'Eboe' in Guinea.