The often-forgotten contributions of Black Georgian and Victorian people will be told in an exhibition about the fight to end ...

click image for close-up This portrait of Olaudah Equiano was used as the frontispiece (illustration opposite a book's title page) of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ...

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 ...

It was the first book written in the English language by an African, and it was called The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. The stories in the book were so powerful that ...

Douglass’ book sold 30,000 copies by 1860 and was ... Equiano’s 1789 “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself ...

Olaudah Equiano: I was enslaved for many years in the West Indies and America. I bought my freedom in 1766 and settled in Britain. I became friends with many of the British abolitionists such as ...