Find out how a Nigerian slave fought to end the evil of slave trade in the United Kingdom. Born in 1746, Olaudah Equiano was a Nigerian who wrote a first-hand book on the evils of the slave trade. He ...

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 ...

One of the few first-person slave narratives depicting the grim and gruesome life of a slave is “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African,” 1789. Now a ...

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, ...

Adam Hochschild?s recently published book, Bury the Chains, is all set to depict a fascinating account of the anti-slavery movement in the British empire, right from the beginning when Thomas Clarkson ...

Marc Wadsworth, a producer of a new BBC docudrama about the abolitionist, writes that we need more programmes which reflect black peoples' stories and history. Olaudah Equiano is the most famous ...

Olaudah Equiano led a tumultuous life. Born around 1745 in the Kingdom of Benin (now Southern Nigeria), he was kidnapped and sold into slavery aged 11. He survived the transatlantic journey to ...

David Olusoga has written a new foreword for Hodder & Stoughton reissue of Black history classic The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, more than 230 years after its original ...