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Timeline of Equiano (key dates)

2019

March 5

1745

Olaudah Equiano born in Essaka, in what is now southeastern Nigeria.

March 5

1756

Kidnapped and is sold to various masters within Africa. Then endures the Middle Passage to Barbados and to Virginia.

March 5

1756

Bought by British Naval Officer Michael Henry Pascal and is renamed (against his will) Gustavus Vassa. Taken to England.

March 5

1756-62

Serves with Pascal in the Royal Navy in the Seven Years’ War with France.

March 5

1759

Is baptized at St. Margaret’s Church, Westminster Abbey, London.

March 5

1763-66

He is resold to Robert King in Montserrat and works on trading ships in the West Indies and on the mainland American colonies.

March 5

1766

Through petty trading on the side, Equiano saves enough money to buy his own freedom.

March 5

1767

Completing one last mission for his old master, Equiano is shipwrecked in the Bahamas. Sails for London.

March 5

1768

Sails to Italy and Turkey. Slave uprising on Montserrat.

March 5

1773

Equiano on expedition to find an Arctic passage to India.

CELEBRATING SANCHO & EQUIANO

Mar 27, 2023 | Featured, News & Events

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

Dec 7, 2022 | News & Events

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...