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 ...

In his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa ... He hoped his book would "promote the interests of humanity." It more than succeeded.

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 ...

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 ...

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 guests relive the Equiano’s cherished and innocent childhood experiences, and took some readings from his book The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano(1789) in reminiscence ...

"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 ...