The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Equino, born in 1745, was born as a member of the Ibo family of Esaka village in Benin Kingdom. He says Esaka as a remote and fertile village, and slavery is part of his life. Ecuano was born in a family of seven, the youngest of the six sons, "his mother's favorite". One day, when he and his sisters were locked in their houses while they were working, the written rule that they should be kidnapped and enslaved, and that slaves should be regarded as prisoners of war or criminals It violated.

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.

An interesting story of the life of Olauda Ecuano in Olauda Ecuano, or Gustavus Vassa, widely used in university classrooms to educate students about the fear of Atlantic slave ships and the living in West Africa in the 18th century. As Vincent Carretta pointed out, "It is difficult to imagine that no history of middle sentences is cited ... the witnesses use the explanation of their fear as the main evidence." But if this If an authoritative statement was born in South Carolina instead of in Africa? In the newly published Equiano the African: "Biography of homemade character" (Georgia University Press, 2005), Carretta also edited Equiano's interesting story penguin version. In other words, Caretta claims that Equiano is still very valuable to historians as he is called "Atlantic Creole."