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Equiano.Stories [Available Feb. 16 exclusively on Instagram in the form of 400 individual Instagram stories at @Equiano.Stories.] A powerful, poignant, factually inspired, well-written, 78-minute film based on Olaudah Equiano's 1789 memoir The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano; or, Gustavus Vassa, the African that reenacts the idyllic life of free-spirited, 11-year-old African Equiano (c. 1745–1797) as he grows up in his village with his parents and siblings in Nigeria and then follows his harrowing, gut-wrenching experience when kidnappers take him and his sister and place them onboard a slave ship in 1756 headed to the America and ends up being repeatedly sold, but eventually he winds up in England where he buys his freedom at age 20, writes the story of his life, and helps abolish the slave trade in Britain in 1807, which occurred ten years after his death.
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Equiano.Stories on the Internet Movie Database
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