Olaudah Equiano and the Price Already Paid
In 1766, a young African man named Olaudah Equiano stood on a dock in Montserrat, West Indies, clutching forty pounds sterling — every coin he...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 1 Corinthians 6:12-20.
In 1766, a young African man named Olaudah Equiano stood on a dock in Montserrat, West Indies, clutching forty pounds sterling — every coin he had scraped together through years of careful trading on the side. He handed the money to his master, Robert King, and purchased what no human being should ever have to buy: ownership of his own body.…
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