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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
1756-62

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

March 5
1756

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

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
1759

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

March 5
1768

Sails to Italy and Turkey. Slave uprising on Montserrat.

March 5
1767

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

March 5
1766

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

March 5
1772

Granville Sharp gets the Somerset decision, declaring that slavery cannot exist in England and slaves setting foot there are free.

Olaudah Equiano’s forced visit to Bridgetown

Olaudah Equiano’s forced visit to Bridgetown

Dec 7, 2022 |

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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