Olaudah Equiano
Igbo-born formerly enslaved person and leading abolitionist. His autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), became a bestseller and a foundational text of the abolitionist movement. He participated in the Sierra Leone resettlement project and lobbied the British Parliament against the slave trade. His account of the Middle Passage is the most widely read first-person narrative of the transatlantic slave trade.
- Lived: 1745 CE – 1797 CE
- Nationality: Igbo/British
- Roles: abolitionist, writer
