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The only written memoir by an enslaved African brought to Virginia is "The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vasa, the African" published in London in 1789. As a child of eleven, Equino (1745-1797) was snatched from his Ibo village in southeastern Nigeria and transported to Barbados, then Virginia, and finally England, where he gained his freedom in 1766. He married an Englishwoman in 1792. |