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Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745 in the Eboe province of Africa (present Nigeria), the youngest of seven brothers and sisters.
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At the age of 11, his sister and himself were kidnapped and held captive for 6 to 7 months.
Then, Equiano was placed on a slave-ship, with approximately 250 other slaves, to endure the Middle Passage. It first arrived at Barbados and stayed there for two weeks.
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Equiano himself was not purchased and so he remained with the Dutch slave ship. Then the slave-ship arrived at Virginia, an English colony, where Equiano was put to work on a plantation.
At last, a man purchased Equiano for 40 pounds.
This man turned out to be Captain Michael Henry Pascal of the British Royal Navy, who renamed Equiano to Gustavus Vassa, the Swedish K