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BN Publishing, 2008. Trade paperback. Very Good. 7x0x9. A first hand account of his capture, slavery, and adventures. Olaudah Equiano (1745 - 31 March 1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa was a writer and abolitionist from, according to his memoir, the Eboe (Igbo) region of the Kingdom of Benin (today southern Nigeria). Enslaved as a child in Africa, he was taken to the Caribbean and sold as a slave to a Royal Navy officer. He was sold twice more but purchased his freedom in 1766.As a freedman in London, Equiano supported the British abolitionist movement. He was part of the Sons of Africa, an abolitionist group composed of Africans living in Britain, and he was active among leaders of the anti-slave trade movement in the 1780s. He published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), which depicted the horrors of slavery. It went through nine editions in his lifetime and helped gain passage of the British Slave Trade Act 1807, which abolished…
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- Title The Life of Olaudah Equiano
- Author Olaudah Equiano
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 112
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher www.bnpublishing.com
- Date 2008-01
- ISBN 9789562916066 / 9562916065
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.23 in (24.61 x 18.90 x 0.58 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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