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According to his autobiography, Olaudah Equiano, the son of a chief, was born in an African village called Easska. Equiano recalls his childhood in his village, where he had a simple life style, and carried on the tradition of being a “greatest warrior”. But all this changed in one day, when he was around the age of eleven. Three strangers came into his house and seized him and his sister, while all the village people were out working in the fields. Equiano tells us that he and his sister were separated, and he was placed on board a slave ship with hundreds of black people who were chained together. Every one of them had a tragic facial expr