Title page of Olaudah Equiano's autobiography He briefly was commissary to Sierra Leone for the Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor he was replaced after he expressed his concerns for settlers-some 500 to 600 formerly enslaved people-and how they were poorly treated before their journey to Sierra Leone. After Equiano settled in England, he became an active abolitionist, agitating and lecturing against the cruelty of British enslavers in Jamaica. He received some education during his enslavement, which ended when he purchased his emancipation in 1766. Equiano was subsequently enslaved by two other people. From there he went to Virginia, where he was enslaved by a sea captain, Michael Henry Pascal, who gave him the name Gustavus Vassa and with whom he traveled widely. In it Equiano expresses a strong abolitionist stance and provides firsthand testimony of the transatlantic slave trade as well as a detailed description of life in what is present-day Nigeria.Īccording to his own account, Equiano was captured in his Igbo village at age 11, sold into slavery, and taken to the West Indies. 1745, Essaka ?-died March 31, 1797, London, England), abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), became the first internationally popular slave narrative. Olaudah Equiano, also called Gustavus Vassa, (born c.
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