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olaudah equiano biography
Author, Abolitionist Olaudah Equiano Died On This Day In 1797
Writer, abolitionist, and former slave Olaudah Equiano (pictured) was responsible for writing one of the earliest accounts of the intercontinental slave trade and became a highly visible proponent of the British slavery abolitionist movement. On this day in 1797, Equiano died in London a full decade before slavery would officially be abolished via the Slave…
