What is recorded here
The public map records this plaque for Olaudah Equiano. Its recorded inscription reads: Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) "The African" lived and published here in 1789 his autobiography on suffering the barbarity of slavery, which paved the way for its abolition
Olaudah Equiano was a former slave who became an influential writer and abolitionist; his autobiography detailed the horrors of slavery and played a crucial role in the British movement to abolish the slave trade.
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