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, ...

By 1765, Olaudah was sold on to London ship’s captain James Doran, who set sail for Montserrat aboard the Charming Sally, where he was traded again, this time to Robert King, a well-to-do Quaker ...

One of the few first-person slave narratives depicting the grim and gruesome life of a slave is “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African,” 1789.

This paper argues that Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative refashions and redeploys an eighteenth-century evangelical discourse of "primitive Christianity" in order to advocate for the end of the ...

Of late, much scholarship on Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative has focused either on the meaning of Equiano's Christianity in postcolonial terms or the debate over Equiano's actual place of ...

The 80-minute film is the second in a series by the award-winning producers of stories documenting the lives of young people during key moments in history. Equiano Stories is a modern take on the ...

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, ...