Jan 27, 2016
Olaudah Eqiano was born in a now the Igbo-speaking region of Nigeria around 1745, Equine was seized from his home at the ago of eleven and sold into the Atlantic slave trade. He learned to read and write, traveled extensively as a seaman aboard one of his masters' ship, and was allowed to buy his freedom in 1766. Elsewhere in Africa, the slave trade did not have such politically destabilizing effects as it did in Kongo. China and Japan helped make tea an entry in Europe in the 16th century abroad Portuguese. The Spanish and Portuguese America gave rise to a wide variety of recognized mixed-race groups known as castes, a hierarchical social order.
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