audio by title black history fact of the day 5

In 1794 former slave and now successful author Olaudah Equiano came to Norwich for several months to lecture and participate in local events coinciding with the 8th enlarged edition of his “Interesting Narrative” that was published here. Equiano was a prominent member of the British cultural life of that time and one of the first black members of the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.