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\\ GUSTAVUS VASSA, OLAUDAH // SARAH PARKER REMOND \\ THE HISTORY OF MARY
EQUIANO. 1826-1894 PRINCE. BY MARY PRINCE
WRITER AND ABOLITIONIST (CLICK IMAGE TO BUY)

Eventually, he would meet Olaudah Equi- Vassa, Olaudah Equiano was a writer Sarah Parker Remond started speaking
ano—known as Gustavus Vassa—and and abolitionist from the Eboe region of publically about slavery in the USA at
other educated Blacks in London. This the Kingdom of Benin (today southern just 16 years old. Her lectures took her
led to him joining the Sons of Africa. Nigeria). around America, the UK and Europe,
where she became a well-known figure
Cugoano’s writing culminates in the He was enslaved as a child, and taken and agent of change in the anti-slavery
1787 publishing of Thoughts and Senti- to the Caribbean where he was sold as movement.
ments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of a slave to a Royal Navy officer. He was
the Slavery and Commerce of the Human sold twice more before he purchased his Born free in Massachusetts and became
Species. His book targets the institution freedom in 1766. known as a lecturer, abolitionist, and
of slavery from a very heavy Christian agent of the American Anti-Slavery So-
base and made the case that abolition As a freedman in London, Equiano sup- ciety. An international activist for human
was the answer. It also serves as an au- ported the British abolitionist move- rights and women’s suffrage. In 1858 Re-
tobiography of his life prior to arriving in ment. He was part of the Sons of Afri- mond was chosen to travel to England to
England. ca, an abolitionist group composed of gather support for the abolitionist cause
Africans living in Britain. He was active in the United States. While in London,
In his book, Cugoano stated: among leaders of the anti-slave trade Remond also studied at the Bedford Col-
Is it not strange to think, that they who movement in the 1780s. He published his lege for Women, lecturing during term
ought to be considered as the most autobiography, The Interesting Narrative breaks.
learned and civilized people in the world, of the Life of Olaudah Equiano in 1789,
that they should carry on a traffic of the which depicted the horrors of slavery. From England, Remond went to Italy in
most barbarous cruelty and injustice, 1867 to pursue medical training in Flor-
and that many think slavery, robbery and The book went through nine editions in ence, where she became a physician. She
murder no crime? his lifetime and helped gain passage of practiced medicine for nearly 20 years in
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the British Slave Trade Act 1807, which Italy and never returned to the United
Known for most of his life as Gustavus abolished the slave trade. States.