Nigel Clarke celebrates the life and work of the eighteenth century anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano ... Olaudah wrote a book about what it felt like to be a slave. It was a book that ...

Captured far from the African coast when he was a boy of 11, Olaudah Equiano was sold into slavery, later acquired his freedom, and, in 1789, wrote his widely-read autobiography, The Interesting ...

click image for close-up This portrait of Olaudah Equiano was used as the frontispiece (illustration opposite a book's title page) of his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of ...