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Frontispiece portrait of Olaudah Equiano, from 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,...

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BL5905884
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Frontispiece portrait of Olaudah Equiano, from 'The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Second edition, [With a portrait]', 1789 (engraving)
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English School, (18th century) / English
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British Library, London, UK
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engraving
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1789 AD (C18th AD)
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1489.g.50. Olaudah Equiano (c.1745-97), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from Ihiala, which is in Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir, or from South Carolina according to other sources. Enslaved as a child, he was taken to the Anglo-Caribbean, British West Indies and sold as a slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker trader. Eventually, he earned his own freedom in 1766 by intelligent trading and careful savings.

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Caribbean / male / portrait / abolitionist / African / nigerian / ihaila / ihailan / oval / gustavus vassa / olaudah equiano
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