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Olaudah Equiano

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Olaudah Equiano (1745–1797), known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist. And described as a native of the Eboe (Igbo) province in the 1791 4th edition of his book.

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“This gave me new life and spirits; and my heart burned within me, while I thought the time long till I obtained my freedom.”

— Olaudah Equiano《The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano》

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Book · 1789

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, an African from what is now Nigeria who was enslaved in childhood and eventually bought his freedom and became an abolitionist in the United Kingdom. The work draws on autobiography.

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