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Olaudah Equiano

Plate X

Writer, Sailor & Abolitionist

Olaudah Equiano

c. 1745 – 1797

Formerly enslaved sailor and writer whose autobiography became a landmark of abolitionist literature in 18th-century Britain.

  • •Served as a sailor across the Atlantic world
  • •Published The Interesting Narrative, 1789
  • •Bought his own freedom, 1766
  • •Toured Britain campaigning against slavery

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