Today’s Google Doodle celebrates Olaudah Equiano who was a freed slave who supported the movement to end the slave trade in England. In 1789, he published his autobiography which helped create the ...

A key figure in abolition, Equiano forged an extraordinary life and wrote a book that helped to change the world AFTER facing true hardship, Olaudah Equiano forged an extraordinary life and legacy and ...

That is what one sees when stepping foot inside the DuSable Museum of African American History’s new “Equiano” exhibit. The exuberance of an average 11-year-old boy of Igbo culture living with his ...

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 ...

*Originally conceived as a presentation during Black History Month at Southwark libraries in London to mark the annual UK observance in October, this initiative has, over four years, culminated in the ...

One of the few first-person slave narratives depicting the grim and gruesome life of a slave is “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African,” 1789. Now a ...

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The contributions of Olaudah Equiano to the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade are as impressive as they are numerous. Equiano was a voice for the thousands of Africans being enslaved by Europeans, ...

Adam Hochschild?s recently published book, Bury the Chains, is all set to depict a fascinating account of the anti-slavery movement in the British empire, right from the beginning when Thomas Clarkson ...

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