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Did You Know? A Slavery Abolitionist Was From The Igbo Region
April 19, 2022
Olaudah Equiano, an African writer and abolitionist, documented his experiences as a slave. taken away Olaudah was born in 1745 in Essaka, an Igbo Village in what is now Benin. He had five older brothers and a younger sister. At the age of eleven, he and his sister were captured by native slave traders. Olaudah … Continue reading Did You Know? A Slavery Abolitionist Was From The Igbo Region
