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"Olaudah Equiano, the African “Gentleman�

Olaudah Equiano was a slave in the middle to late 18th Century, albeit an educated one. His claim to fame was the biography he himself wrote entitled “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano� and published by subscription in the year 1789 just eight years before his death. Included in the narrative were the statements that he was abducted in Africa along with his sister when he was about ten years old. Yet history recounts a different tale. Sometimes fiction is stranger than fact.

In the book Olaudah writes that he was born in the village of Ibo near the Niger River in West Africa. It seems Olaudah was fated to be a chief or an elder when fate twisted cruelly. Slave traders abducted Olaudah and his sister, separated them and sold Olaudah to British traders and carried him by slave ship to America. A local planter purchased Olaudah in 1756 and sold him to Michael Henry Pascal who took him to England in......

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