Olaudah Equiano (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Knowledge of the events of the life of Olaudah Equiano (ehk-wee-AHN-oh) and of his literary work are intimately related, for the only published writing by Equiano is an autobiography that is also the most detailed and most reliable source of information about his life. According to that autobiography, Equiano was born in 1745 in the part of Africa known in the eighteenth century as Guinea (now Nigeria), and in a district considerably far from the seacoast, which Equiano refers to as Essaka, in the kingdom of Benin. When Equiano was eleven, he and his sister were captured by Aro...
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