Olaudah Equiano
(1745-1797)
Abolitionist and writer (c. 1745 - 1797)
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Olaudah Equiano (c. 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 shipped to the Caribbean as a victim of the Atlantic slave trade and sold as a slave to a Royal Navy officer. He was sold twice more but purchased his freedom in 1766.
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Olaudah Equiano 1745 Essaka,Igbo
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31 March 1797 (aged 51) Paddington Street, Middlesex
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