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CELEBRATING SANCHO & EQUIANO
Join us on this special occasion as we celebrate two iconic Africans.
FREE ZOOM EVENT
Thursday 6 April 2023 | 7:30 -9pm
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 him to Virginia where Captain Henry Pascal bought him, and...
The Equiano Society announces a new project
CELEBRATING IGNATIUS SANCHO (c1729-1780): AN AFRICAN MAN OF LETTERS