1. A Slave Narrative

2.  The expansion of colonies opened slave trade  Plantations needed workers  Traders traded materials from Europe to Africa  Slaves from Africa to the Americas  Raw materials From the Americas to Europe

3.  Historians estimate between 10 and 20 million Africans were enslaved  During the voyage of the Middle Passage, estimated 1 million slaves died  Overcrowding  Bad Food  Harsh Treatment  Disease  Despair

8.  Grew up on Benin…now Nigeria  Second in line to rule Essaka  Was kidnapped by African slave traders  Eventually sent to Virginia

9.  Sold to British officer  Travelled with him to Nova Scotia, London, and the Mediterranean  1763 – sold again  Was allowed to work as a clerk and captain’s assistant  Bought his own freedom in 1766

10.  During his captivity, he learned English  As a free man, devoted himself to the anti- slavery movement  Lectured against British slaveholders  From 1787 to 1788 drafted autobiography  The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African  1 st published in London in 1789