Frontpage of The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, was an eighteenth The couple settled in the area and had two daughters, Anna Maria , born

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However, Anna Maria died when she was only four years old. View marriage certificate. Olaudah Equiano was appointed to the expedition to settle former black slaves in Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa. However, he died on 31st March, 1797 before he could complete the task. Equiano, for his time, was exceptionally widely travelled.

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I enhanced it as much as possible as it was very high up and faint. Children: Joanna Vassa & Anna Maria Vassa Background Olaudah Equiano was an African writer whose personal experiences with slavery impelled him to become more concerned with the anti-slavery movement Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in the African country that is now Nigeria. The adults worked in the fields during the day leaving the children to fend for themselves in the village. Older children were often given the task of acting as lookouts and if they saw any traders approaching the village they would let out a loud cry. Entitled The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (1789), the book rapidly went through nine editions in his lifetime. It is one of the earliest-known examples of published writing by an African Writer to be widely read in England. Relative of notable.

The two supposedly met while Equiano was touring the country promoting his autobiography. They had two children together, Anna Maria (d. 1797) and Joanna Vassa. 15. He left a fortune for his children. Olaudah Equiano died on 31 March 1797 in London at the age of 52. His two daughters inherited a fortune of £950 (worth roughly £100,000 today).

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'THE AFRICAN' OLAUDAH EQUIANO Baptized Gustavus Vassa in this church 9 February 1759, Author and Abolitionist. He was born in Africa (probably modern day Nigeria) in 1745 and was a slave in various countries from the age of eleven. His slave name was Gustavus Vassa. One of his masters, Captain Pascal, allowed him to be baptized in St Margaret's.

1745 – 31 March 1797) also known as Gustavus Vassa , was a prominent African involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. Chesterton, Cambridge CHESTERTON – ANNA MARIA VASSA Near this place lies interred Anna Maria Vassa Daughter of Gustavus Vassa the AFRICAN She died July 21 1797 Aged 4 years Should simple village rhymes attract thine eye, Stranger, as thoughtfully thou passest by, Benow that there lies beside this humble stone A child of colour haply not thine own Her father born of Afric’s sun-burnt race Children: Joanna Vassa & Anna Maria Vassa Background Olaudah Equiano was an African writer whose personal experiences with slavery impelled him to become more concerned with the anti-slavery movement Anna Maria Vassa was a child with an unusual background. Her mother, Susannah, came from Soham and had never travelled outside Cambridgeshire before her marriage, but her father, Olaudah Equiano, came from what is now Nigeria in Africa, where he was captured as an 11 year old child and enslaved. Olaudah Equiano (c.

He wastaken to Virginia as a slave. He was eventually sold to a ship’s captain and travelled widely. After 16 years as a slave he managed to save enough money to buy his freedom.
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Equiano died in March 1797, a full ten years before the slave trade was abolished in British ships, forty years before slavery was abolished in British colonies, and 68 years before slavery was ended in the United States. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, Written by Himself was published in London in 1789.The Interesting Narrative is considered to be among the ‘100 best English Language non-fiction books of all times’ by The Guardian: ‘The most famous slave memoir of the 18th century is a powerful and terrifying read and established Equiano as a founding figure in black literary tradition.’ Olaudah Equiano.

1793 Anna Maria Vassa born; French republican commissioners abolish slavery in Saint. 29 Jul 2019 Olaudah Equiano, the first political leader of Britain's black community was He was renamed Gustavas Vassa, and was beaten until he answered to his new name. The couple had two children, Anna Maria and Johanna.
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In St Margaret's church Westminster is an oval memorial tablet to author and slave abolitionist Olaudah Equiano who was baptized in that church when he was a slave. It was unveiled, at the west end near the font, on 9th February 2009 by the Archbishop of York and the sculptor was Marcia Bennett-Male.The inscription reads: 'THE AFRICAN' OLAUDAH EQUIANO Baptized Gustavus Vassa in this church 9

She was born in Fordham, Cambridgeshire in either 1761 or 1762. In 1792 she married Equiano. They had two children, Anna Maria and Joanna Vassa. After the birth of their second child Susan died.