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Frontispiece portrait of Olaudah Equiano, from 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,...

Frontispiece portrait of Olaudah Equiano, from 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or G
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Frontispiece portrait of Olaudah Equiano, from 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Second edition, [With a portrait]', 1789 (engraving)

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English School, (18th century) / English

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1789 AD (C18th AD)

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1489.g.50. Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-97), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from Ihiala, which is in Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir, or from South Carolina according to other sources. Enslaved as a child, he was taken to the Anglo-Caribbean, British West Indies and sold as a slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker trader. Eventually, he earned his own freedom in 1766 by intelligent trading and careful savings.

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