Starting Black Literature Through Olaudah Equianos Slave And After-slavery Experiences
Posted on March 24, 2008 - Filed Under Arts and Entertainment, Computers and Technology | Leave a Comment
Olaudah Equiano was one of the most prominent Africans involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade. His autobiography depicting the horrors of slavery helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade in 1807.
Equiano’s early life began about 1745 in the village of “Essaka” in an Igbo-speaking region of present-day Nigeria. where his father was a chief and an important elder who helped settle disputes.
He and his sister at the age of eleven, were kidnapped by fellow Africans and sold into slavery. After changing hands a few times he was shipped across the Atlantic to Barbados where he remained unpurchased because of his small size; for the work on a sugar plantation required much strength.
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