Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797) also known as Gustavus Vassa, is a prominent African involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade.

Enslaved as a child in the Thirteen Colonies, he purchases his freedom and worksas an author, merchant, and explorer in South America, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the American colonies, and the United Kingdom, where he settles by 1792.

His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, depicts the horrors of slavery and influences the enactment of the Slave Trade Act of 1807.

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