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 ...

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 ...

The dual King's Stand Stakes winner Equiano, sire of top-level sprinters including The Tin Man and Belvoir Bay, is on the move from Ireland to France, where he will stand at Haras de Fontaine. In a ...

Kwa chant about the disappearance of an African boy, Equiano This African chant mourns the loss of Olaudah Equiano, an 11-year-old boy and son of an African tribal leader who was kidnapped in 1755 ...

Nigel Clarke celebrates the life and work of the eighteenth century anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, once an enslaved person himself. Hi, I'm Nigel, and I'm a TV presenter. I was born and ...

Autobiographies by people who had previously been enslaved - Mary Prince, Ottobah Cugonao and Olaudah Equiano - helped turn many people against slavery and the trade in enslaved people.