It is well known that Anna Maria Vassa, the eldest daughter of Black British abolitionist Olaudah Equiano, died on July 31, 1797, and was buried in Chesterton. However, the exact site of her grave had ...

The contributions of Olaudah Equiano to the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade are as impressive as they are numerous. Equiano was a voice for the thousands of Africans being enslaved by Europeans, ...

In the everlasting faceoff between Black history and America’s self-conception, it’s worth revisiting one of the fight’s earliest and most valiant weapons of war: the slave memoir. Narratives by ...

Life, death, and terror in the slave trade -- The evolution of the slave ship -- African paths to the Middle Passage -- Olaudah Equiano : astonishment and terror ...

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 ...