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 ...

The often-forgotten contributions of Black Georgian and Victorian people will be told in an exhibition about the fight to end ...

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, by Olaudah Equiano, reproduced by permission of St. Martin's Press ...

Olaudah Equiano: I was enslaved for many years in the West Indies and America. I bought my freedom in 1766 and settled in Britain. I became friends with many of the British abolitionists such as ...

Narratives by formerly enslaved writers like Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Solomon Northup were critical to shedding light on the otherwise unthinkable realities of enslavement.

Nigel Clarke celebrates the life and work of the eighteenth century anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, once an enslaved person himself. Hi, I'm Nigel, and I'm a TV presenter. I was born and ...

There are turtles in that area, and though elusive and hard to spot, I would often spend hours watching the waves and for a possible glimpse of a shy turtle. That particular day I thought I saw ...

Sir Sadiq Khan has handed Londoners a £2m bill for “woke nonsense” as cuts to the capital’s police budget loom. The Mayor ...

This was also seen by some as a good way of disposing of a troublesome minority. Olaudah Equiano was appointed commissary of provisions and stores for the emigrant poor going to Sierra Leone.

The Windrush Foundation is to receive £89,500 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund to mark 30 years of providing heritage ...

The dual King's Stand Stakes winner Equiano, sire of top-level sprinters including The Tin Man and Belvoir Bay, is on the move from Ireland to France, where he will stand at Haras de Fontaine. In a ...