The ship took Equiano to Monserrat, one of the Caribbean islands, where he was sold to Captain Robert King, who trained him as a trader. I saw the Lord Jesus Christ in his humiliation, loaded and bearing my reproach, sin, and shame. He then went back to London, where he worked for some time as a hairdresser.Clarity came during a journey to Spain. Equiano Puts the Case Against the Slave Trade. Lincoln and slavery: “If I could save the union without freeing any slave, I would” The publication of Equiano’s autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, in 1789, also did much to publicise the horrors of slavery, and he spent several months travelling and promoting his book.




In 1788, he sent a letter to Queen Charlotte on behalf of all Africans, asking her to intercede in their favor. Robert Hume in conversation with Caroline WilliamsCheryl Ives in conversation with Caroline WilliamsRobert Hume, a teacher at Clarendon House School in Ramsgate, was brought up with the stories of Wilberforce and the Abolition movement, but he started to delve deeper into the subject when he realised it must have taken more than the efforts of one man.Rob Smith has been talking to Robert Hume and listening to some extracts from the book read by students at the school:The illustrations in the book were provided by Cheryl Ives, a former colleague of Robert's at Clarendon House School. Using the marketing skills he had acquired in his career, Equiano chose to self-publish and to promote the book by finding a large number of subscribers. Impressed by Equiano’s faith and knowledge of Scriptures, Macnamara recommended him as missionary to Africa. The court trial brought the cruelty of this common practice to the attention of the general public.The Alliance is a coalition of pastors, scholars, and churchmen who hold the historic creeds and confessions of the Reformed faith and who proclaim biblical doctrine in order to foster a Reformed awakening in today's Church.By that time, the opposition to the slave trade was growing in England, and Equiano continued to add his voice. »



For I will not suppose that the dealers in slaves are born worse than other men—No; it is the fatality of this mistaken avarice, that it corrupts the milk of human kindness and turns it into gall. This enabled him to become a British citizen and he began writing about his experiences.

The book was a best seller, and is still in print today. At one point during the journey, the raiders woke up Equiano and his sister while they were lying “clasped in each other’s arms”Philadelphia Conference on Reformed TheologyEquiano used the same Bible verse again while talking to a man who had amputated the leg of a runaway slave. I was then convinced that by the first Adam sin came, and by the second Adam the Lord Jesus Christ) all that are saved must be made alive.”https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/equiano2/equiano2.htmlPuritan: All of Life to the Glory of God PodcastIn London, Equiano worked closely with anti-slavery campaigners. It became immensely popular, helping the abolitionist cause and made Equiano wealthy.

This gave Equiano the opportunity to do some business on the side and to raise some money that he used in 1766 to buy his own freedom.


If the law allowed a certain deed, they assumed it was lawful in every way.

Olaudah Equiano, (born c. 1745, Essaka [now in Nigeria]?—died March 31, 1797, London, England), self-proclaimed West African sold into slavery and later freed. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, was one of the most prominent Africans involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade. » Pascal took him to England and renamed him Gustavus Vassa (after the sixteenth-century Swedish king).