SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE SOUTHERN COLONIES SETTLEMENT AND GROWTH
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He wrote about his life as a slave after he earned his freedom.
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He ran away.
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He was always a slave.
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He fought against his overseer.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Beyond his personal success, Equiano’s book made a vital contribution to the abolitionist cause. His story refuted many of the racist stereotypes and misconceptions that were prominent at the time as he gave the public an opportunity to see slavery through the eyes of a former slave.
Detailed explanation-2: -As a freedman in London, Equiano supported the British abolitionist movement. Equiano was part of the Sons of Africa, an abolitionist group comprised of Africans living in Britain, and he was active among leaders of the anti-slave trade movement in the 1780s.
Detailed explanation-3: -He spoke out against the English slave trade. He worked to resettle freed slaves. By 1789, the year he published his autobiography, Olaudah Equiano was a well-known abolitionist. Ten years after his death in 1797, the English slave trade was finally abolished.
Detailed explanation-4: –died March 31, 1797, London, England), abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789), became the first internationally popular slave narrative.