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Olaudah Equiano was born in a region known as "Essaka" near the Niger river in modern day Nigeria until he was kidnapped by kinsmen and taken to the English colonies. He lived in America most of the rest of his life until he finally found freedom and decided to travel to the Mediterranean, the Carribean, the Atlantic, and the Arctic and then went to London and involved himself in the abolishment of the slave trade

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