Olaudah Equiano. Portrait of the writer and abolitionist known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa (c. 1745-1797), engraving, 1887.

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Olaudah Equiano. Portrait of the writer and abolitionist known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa (c. 1745-1797), engraving, 1887. According to his memoir, Equiano was from the Eboe region of the Kingdom of Benin (today southern Nigeria).

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