Black History Month presentation, this book tells the true story of Olaudah Equiano for a new generation of young readers.

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 ...

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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, ...

A 1789 book sparked abolitionist sentiment by describing the brutality of the slave trade. But today the story tells us so much more than that. There is a painting in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum ...

It is well known that Anna Maria Vassa, the eldest daughter of Black British abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, died on July 31, 1797, and was buried in Chesterton. However, the exact site of her grave had ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- What would the narrative be if the experience of slavery could be told by someone with a cellphone? It would look a lot like Equiano Stories, a collaboration between the DuSable ...

London : Printed for and sold by the author, No. 20, Union-Street, Middlesex Hospital; sold also by Mr. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard; Mr. Murray, Fleet-Street ...