Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa

Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa In 1758 Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped from his home in southeastern Nigeria and sold as a slave. Equiano was only 11 years old and forced to leave his Ibo religion, his family and all other familiar people. His statements to the Europeans that he was forced to become slaves was particularly powerful because Equiano had never seen it before in white people. ... I was taken to a ship. Several crews immediately talked to me and ceased to judge whether I was saying or not; I am now being persuaded to enter the crazy world, they kill me I will.

Equiano, Olaudah (Gustavus Vassa) (1745-1797) Autobiography, abolitionist Olaudah Equiano published the lifetime of Olaudah Equiano in 1789, or an interesting story of Gustavus Vassa in Africa. Tradition of slave stories. - American literature Equiano witnessed the atrocities of slave trade across the Atlantic Ocean, helped terminate the slave trade in the UK and became the most influential African American writer of the 18th century. The son of Orauda Ecuano, leader of Ibo in Benin province of Africa, now known as Nigeria, was born in 1745. In 1756, at the age of 11, he was kidnapped by an African merchant and sold to a British slave. He was sent to Barbados in the West Indies and then to Virginia. So the British navy's lieutenant Michael Henry Pascal sent him to Virginia.

Olaudah Equiano was called Gustavus Vassa by his white master and became legendary throughout his words. In 1788, England announced his autobiographical work "an interesting story of the life of Orauda Ecuano", or African Gustav Vassa, who pioneered the former slave's own anti-slavery literature that would be abolished did. Movement brings extensive effects. In the 18th century. Ecuano was born in a small village in modern Nigeria in 1745, and he plans to travel long before death in 1797. A slave slave merchant in Africa tore him at home when he was 11 years old. So, not to mention the oppressed young black people - they have begun a series of secular experiences not comparable to many of the most international people.