Good Evening #mydarlings! It's time to learn about another Black Brit of note. Today we celebrate Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa. Mr. Equiano was African man who rose from slavery to become an activist, abolitionist, author, merchant, and explorer. His autobiography helped abolish Great Brittain's involvement in the slave trade.
Olaudah Equiano wrote an autobiography depicting his experience in slavery. It served as one of the first testimonies in the abolition movement. Equiano is often regarded as the originator of the slave narrative because of his firsthand literary testimony against the slave trade. Despite the controversy regarding his birth, The Interesting Narrative remains an essential work both for its picture of 18th-century Africa as a model of social harmony defiled by Western greed and for its eloquent argument against the barbarous slave trade. To learn more about this abolitionist click here.
