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Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797)[1] also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a prominent African abolitionist and freed slave; he supported the British movement to end the slave trade. As a child he was enslaved in his village of Essaka, in what is now Igboland Nigeria, and shipped to the West Indies, being sold in Virginia. With his master, an officer in the Royal Navy, he eventually moved to England, where he purchased his freedom. Throughout his life Equiano worked as an author, a seafarer, merchant, hairdresser, and explorer in South and Central America, the Caribbean, and the Arctic, the American colonies, and the United Kingdom, where he settled by 1792. His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, depicts the horrors of slavery and influenced the enactment of the British Slave Trade Act of 1807, which abolished the African slave trade.[2]
In his account, Equiano gives details about his hometown Essaka and the laws and customs of the Igbo people (written Eboe), he described some of the communities he passed through as he was forcibly taken to the coast. His biography details his voyage on a slave ship, the brutality of slavery in the colonies of West Indies, Virginia, and Georgia, and the disfranchisement of freed people of colour (including kidnapping and enslavement) in these same places. Equiano was particularly attached to his Christian faith; he embraced it in 1759 at the age of 14 and its importance is a recurring theme in his autobiography; he identified as a Protestant of the Church of England. Several events in his life drew him to question his faith, as well as almost losing it completely after a black cook named John Annis was kidnapped from a ship in England and tortured on the island of Saint Kitts.[3]
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