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Line 7: [[Thirteen Colonies\|American colonies]] and in [[Kingdom of Great Britain\|Britain]]. He was a leading influence in the abolition of slavery. ==~~His life~~Biograpghy== ===Early life and slavery=== By his own account, Olaudah Equiano's early life began in the region of ''Essaka'' (in his spelling; now ''Isseke'') near the [[River Niger]], an [[Igbo language\|Igbo]]-speaking region of [[Nigeria]], now in [[Anambra State]]. At an early age he was kidnapped by kinsmen and forced into domestic [[slavery]] in another native village in a region where the African chieftain hierarchy was tied to slavery. <ref name="Equiano">Equiano, Olaudah: ''The —Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African''. Gutenberg Project, 2005. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15399/15399-h/15399-h.htm

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