A best seller of its time, Olaudah Equiano\'s story of his Life as a slave in the second half of the eighteenth century continues to this day to aid our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and our fight against modern slavery.
He changed owners several times before being taken to the coast and forced aboard a slave ship destined.
According to his memoir, eleven-year old Equiano and his sister were kidnapped from their village (in what is now southern Nigeria) by African slavers.
A best seller of its time, Olaudah Equiano\'s story of his Life as a slave in the second half of the eighteenth century continues to this day to aid our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade and our fight against modern slavery