The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Gustavus Vassa the African by Olaudah Equiano

The Life of Olaudah Equiano, Gustavus Vassa the African

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  • Genre Biographies & Memoirs
  • Publisher Standard Ebooks
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  • Size 1.74 MB
  • Length 252 Pages

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"The Life of Olaudah Equiano" is one of the earliest-known examples of published writing by an African writer and the first influential slave narrative of what became a large literary genre. Equiano's autobiography helped in the creation of the Slave Trade Act 1807 which ended the African slave trade for Britain and its colonies.
Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa was a freed slave of Igbo extraction from the eastern part of present-day Nigeria, who supported the British movement to end the slave trade.

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