![]() ![]() The merchant, Robert King, provided Equiano freedom to trade during their work and travel in commercial vessels. He traveled through many oceans with British soldiers and then was sold to a prosperous merchant from Philadelphia. He worked on a plantation in Virginia before he was bought by a British Navy Soldier who taught him to read, write and introduced him to religion. ![]() He later wrote about his voyage from Africa to Virginia (where he was sold) later in his memoir. While he was being transported out of Africa, he visited multiple places and crossed oceans. He later penned as Gustavus Vassa in the late 1780s.Īccording to his account, he was kidnapped at the age of eleven and was taken to be sold for slavery. Olaudah Equiano was the first publishing writer in Britain of African descent. Olaudah Equiano was a writer and abolitionist enslaved in his childhood and resold to numerous owners before he could purchase his freedom by 1767. He later wrote about his voyage from Africa to Virginia (where he was sold) later in his memoir 'The Interesting Narrative Of The Life Of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African.' ![]() According to his account, he was kidnapped at the age of eleven and was taken to be sold for slavery. ![]()
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