Olaudah Equiano and the Eighteenth-Century Debate over Africa and the Slave Trade
Arguments made by eighteenth-century writers about the slave trade and contributions to those debates by freed slave Olaudah Equiano. Originally published by Newberry Digital Collections for the Classroom, 09.05.2017, Newberry Library, republished with permission for educational, non-commercial purposes. Introduction Olaudah Equiano was a British citizen and former slave who, in the 1780s, became a leader[…]