by Equiano | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, News & Events
CELEBRATING SANCHO & EQUIANO Join us on this special occasion as we celebrate two iconic Africans. Hear the latest information about their lives and our plans to create memorials for them. Contributors include: Emeritus Professor Vincent Carretta Paterson Joseph...
by Equiano | Dec 7, 2022 | News & Events
Olaudah Equiano’s forced visit to Bridgetown I am in Barbados, next to a memorial that acknowledges Olaudah Equiano’s forced visit to Bridgetown, in the early 1750s. He wasn’t sold there, no one wanted to buy such a tiny 11 year old boy. Enslavers took...
by Equiano | Sep 26, 2022 | Featured, News & Events
The Equiano Society announces a new project CELEBRATING IGNATIUS SANCHO (c1729-1780): AN AFRICAN MAN OF LETTERS With an award from National Heritage Lottery Fund, the project will celebrate the writer, businessman, playwright, composer, and abolitionist who was buried...
by Equiano | Mar 10, 2022 | Featured, News & Events
The Meaning of Zong Giles Terera leads the cast in this new stage production. This visionary play tells the true story of pioneering abolitionist Olaudah Equiano and how one man’s spirit can fundamentally change a nation. Giles Terera plays Olaudah Equiano. Terera is...
by Equiano | Dec 9, 2020 | Featured, News & Events
The life and times of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano Quobna (c.1757- c.1791) was kidnapped at aged 13, enslaved and shipped to the West Indian island of Grenada. He was taken to England in 1772 and later freed following Lord Mansfield’s ruling in the Somerset v Stewart case....
