Book cover with portrait of Olaudah Equiano with the caption ‘Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African’, circa 1885 (Picture: Fotosearch/Getty) However, even as a free man, Equiano ...

Equiano was born in Essaka, a small village in Benin, in 1745. His father was an Embrenche, an elder or chief, and oversaw disputes and punishments. He had five brothers and one sister, and was ...

Calling on a clergyman named Jones at Trinity College, Cambridge, he handed him a letter: Still known by his slave name, Olaudah Equiano ... be an epic-length book tour. Equiano was no stranger ...

click image for close-up This portrait of Olaudah Equiano was used as the frontispiece (illustration opposite a book's title page) of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ...

He published The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, in 1789. The book—a model for later slave narratives—packs memories of Africa ...

A 1789 book sparked abolitionist sentiment by describing ... “Portrait of a Man in a Red Suit” was once presumed to portray Olaudah Equiano, perhaps the greatest, yet least well-known, former ...

His book ?The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa the African? appeared in 1789. Equiano said his book was meant to promote the ?interests of humanity?, ...

Equiano’s story is famously documented in the 1789 book he self-published, “The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African, as Published by Himself.” His memoir ...

"The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African". The book was a bestseller and brought the horrors of slavery to a wider audience. Its publication helped ...

It was the first book written in the English language by an African, and it was called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. The stories in the book were so powerful that ...