Brycchan carey equiano biography
As a slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker merchant, he eventually earned the price of his own freedom by careful trading and saving. | |
Olaudah Equiano (c) was an eighteenth-century African writer, antislavery activist, mariner, explorer, and Britain's first black civil servant. | |
It is the most important African autobiography of the eighteenth century, telling the story of a life of high adventure on land and sea, from. |
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- Olaudah Equiano (c) was an eighteenth-century African writer, antislavery activist, mariner, explorer, and Britain's first black civil servant.
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Olaudah Equiano: An Illustrated Biography -
Almost everything we know about the first ten years of Equiano's life we find from Equiano's own account in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, published in In this, Equiano tells us that he was born around the year in an area called 'Eboe' in Guinea. Ibo (or Igbo) is one of the main languages of present day Nigeria. Equiano tells us that he was the son of a chief, and that at about the age of eleven he and his sister were kidnapped while out playing, and were marched to the coast and put on board a slave ship. Equiano then endured the middle passage on a slave ship bound for the New World. Equiano's accounts of Africa and the middle passage have became famous. In recent years, however, it has been suggested by Vincent Carretta that Equiano may not have been born in Africa at all. According to Carretta, Equiano may have been born a slave in South Carolina - at that time one of the thirteen British colonies in North America. In
Olaudah Equiano: An Illustrated Biography - Brycchan Carey
- Brycchan Carey (born 23 June ) is a British academic and author with research interests in the environmental humanities and the cultural history of slavery and abolition.
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- Brycchan Carey (born 23 June ) is a British academic and author with research interests in the environmental humanities and the cultural history of slavery and abolition.
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- Brycchan Carey is an academic and author specialising in the history and culture of slavery and abolition in the British Empire.