Slavery Key Figures: Olaudah Equiano

Question 1

How much did Olaudah Equine pay for his freedom?

Answer 1

£40

Question 2

Where did Olaudah Equine come from?

Answer 2

Eboe Province Southern Nigeria

Question 3

In what capacity did he travel widely?

Answer 3

A sailor

Question 4

Give an example of one of the hardships he endured as a slave

Answer 4

Middle Passage

Question 5

What was significant about Olaudah Equiano?

Answer 5

One of the first non-white abolitionists

Question 6

What did he lead with the Sons of Africa group?

Answer 6

A campaign to parliament in support of Willian Doben’s bill to improve conditions for slaves?

Question 7

What compelling argument did he present to Middle and Upper class white men?

Answer 7

His own story, but told by a literate black man

Question 8

What did his Literacy undermine?

Answer 8

The pro-slavery argument that black people were incapable of rational thought.

Question 9

When was his book published?

Answer 9

1789

Question 10

What was his book called?

Answer 10

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano

Question 11

Asses the impact of Olaudah Equiano’s book compared to Clarkson’s essay?

Answer 11

Was just as significant but it carried more moral weight for the reader as each line depicted an inhumane experience that had happened to the author. Its graphic descriptions also removed slavery from the abstract and distant.

Question 12

What group did Olaudah Equiano join in 1787?

Answer 12

Sons of Africa

Question 13

When did he die?

Answer 13

1797

Question 14

How much was Olaudah Equiano’s estate worth when he died?

Answer 14

£950