Distilled by Decanter
Feb 03, 2021
2 minutes
Equiano rum: a liquid legacy
Born in the mid-1700s in Nigeria, Olaudah Equiano was a prominent abolitionist. Kidnapped and sold into slavery as a teenager, he was transported to the Caribbean, where he worked to buy his freedom, eventually arriving in London.
His emotive memoirs became one of the first works
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