OLAUDAH EQUIANO
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OLAUDAH EQUIANO
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- Olaudah Equiano Born 1745 in Nigeria
- YOU'RE COMING WITH ME!!!!
- NO! NO! HELP US!!
- sold to british slavers, transported to Virginia
- "MY PRINCIPAL EMPLOYMENT WAS WORKING HIS BELLOWS"
- I AM SO HAPPY TO SEE MY SISTER!
- I MISS MY SISTER
- BORN IN IBO VILLAGE CALLED ESSAKA
- MOST BEAUTIFUL PLACE
- OLAUDAH, AGE 11, AND HIS SISTER WERE KIDNAPPED
- THEY MADE ME FORGET I WAS A SLAVE
- OLAUDAN WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS SISTER
- THEY CALLED ME MICHAEL AND TREATED ME HORRIBLY
- HIS FIRST MASTER WAS A GOLD SMITH
- MANY DIED OR WERE KILLED
- SOLD AGAIIN TO ANOTHER FAMILY
- THEY CALL ME JACOB
- REUNITED WITH HIS SISTER
- OKAY!
- SEPARATED FROM HIS SISTER AGAIN
- SOLD AGAIN AND AGAIN-TOWN OF TINMAH
- RICHARD DIED 1759
- HE WAS ALLOWED TO SIT AND EAT WITH HIS NEW FAMILY
- TAKEN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, TRAVELED FOR MONTHS, PUT ON A SLAVE SHIP
- YOU MUST LEAVE YOUR SCHOO AND CHURCH TO FOLLOW ME!
- NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT BUT I MUST GO!
- HE WAS TORCHURED
- YOU WILL BE FREE AND I WILL TEACH YOU MY BUSINESS SO YOU CAN MAKE A GOOD LIVING!
- NEXT STOP WAS A VIRGINIA PLANTATION
- WEEDING GRASS AND GATHERING STONES
- YOU MUST GO!
- NO, I AM FREE!
- MICHAEL HENRY PASCAL, LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL NAVY, COMMANDER OF SHIP PURCHASED HIM FOR 40 POUNDS
- I HAVE HEARD GREAT THINGS ABOUT YOU!
- COME WITH ME
- RENAMED GUSTAVAS
- I WOULD LOVE TO!THIS IS MY CHANCE TO MAKE MONEY AND BE FREE!
- I WANT TO BE CALLED JACOB!
- COME ABOARD WITH ME!
- GUSTAVAS MADE A NEW FRIEND, RICHARD BAKER
- NOW IN ENGLAND FOR 3 YEARS, SPEAKING ENGLISH, GOING TO SCHOOL, GOT BAPTIZED
- SAILING THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA WITH HIS MASTER
- ABOARD THE ETNA, THE CAPTAINS CLERK TEACHES HIM MATH AND DANIEL QUEEN TEACHES HOW TO READ THE BIBLE
- DEPTFORD, DEC 10TH, FORCED TO LEAVE HIS MASTER
- YOU ARE NOW MY SLAVE
- SOLD AGAIN TO ROBERT KING, A QUAKER WHO TREATED HIM WELL.
- NOW SAILING WITH CAPTAIN THOMAS FARMER IN THE WEST INDIES
- NO SIR!
- THAT IS A LIE!
- HAVE YOU THREATENED TO RUN AWAY?
- YOU CAN EARN YOUR FREEDOM FOR FOURTY POUNDS!
- I DREAMED OF THIS WOMAN WEARING THE SAME DRESS!
- YOU SHOULD BE TWICE IN DANGER OF YOUR LIFE WIHTIN 18 MONTHS!
- YOU SHOULD NOT BE LONG A SLAVE!
- I AM IN SO MUCH PAIN!
- FREEDOM FROM SLAVERY 1766
- 40 POUNDS FOR MY FREEDOM
- 1765 HEADING TO PHILADELPHIA ABOARD THE PRUDENCE
- APPROACHED BY THE HIS MASTER, DEFENDED BY THE CAPTAIN
- HIS MASTER ENCOURAGES HIM TO CONTINUE TO SELL HIS ITEMS TO MAKE ENOUGH MONEY TO BE FREE!
- HE MET A WOMAN WHO HE HAD DREAMED ABOUT WHO TOLD HIM HIS FORTUNE!
- BADLY BEATEN BY A DRUNK WHITE MAN. UNABLE TO WORK FOR 4 WEEKS, ALMOST DIED. DR. BRADY HELPED HIM.
- 1766 ABOARD THE NANCY, 4 BARRELS OF PORK TO SELL
- GUSTAVAS BECAME FREE BY SAVING UP HIS MONEY THAT HE MADE WHILE ON THE VOGAGES AND PAYING 40 POUNDS
Image Attributions
- barge - jo.sau - (License Attribution )
- Bible - Sean MacEntee - (License Attribution )
- Church - OzAmit - (License Attribution )
- Ship - flightlog - (License Attribution )
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