oloudah equiano
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- Oloudah Equiano was born in the Eboe province in Southern Nigeria in c.1745. At age 11, him and his sisters were kidnapped.
- He was sold by a local slave trader and then shipped across the Atlantic, to Barbados and eventually Virginia
- At a slave auction in Virginia, Oloudah was sold to Lieutenant Michael Pascal, a Royal Navy officer. He was renamed Gustavus Vassa, after a Swedish King from the 16th century.
- Equiano travelled the sea with Michael for 8 years and during this time he was taught how to read and write and was baptised.
- He was then taken to Montserrat after being sold to a ship captain in London and then was sold to a merchant names Robert King. Oloudah worked as a deckhand, valet and barber for King and traded on the side, which in three years made Equiano enough money to buy his own freedom. He went on the travel the world for the next 20 years.
- In 1789 he published his autobiography, 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African'. He travelled widely promoting the book, which became immensely popular, helped the abolitionist cause, and made Equiano a wealthy man. It is one of the earliest books published by a black African writer.In 1786 in London, he became involved in the movement to abolish slavery. He was a prominent member of the 'Sons of Africa', a group of 12 black men who campaigned for abolition.
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