# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/olaudah-equiano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T13:55:35.632Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/olaudah-equiano"
name: "Olaudah Equiano"
slug: "olaudah-equiano"
description: "Olaudah Equiano, known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist. According to his memoir, he was from the village of Essaka, presumed to be in present-day southern Nigeria. Enslaved as a child in West Africa, he was shipped to the Caribbean and sold to a Royal Navy officer. He was sold twice more before purchasing his freedom in 1766."
tagline: "Black British abolitionist and writer (c. 1745 – 1797)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Olaudah_Equiano_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15399.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1745"
deathDate: "1797-03-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.66
  momentum:             0
  historical:           22.12645866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump