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CELEBRATING SANCHO & EQUIANO

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Olaudah Equiano’s forced visit to Bridgetown

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...

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