PLEASE ANSWER ASAP Who was Olaudah Equiano

A: He was a former slave owner who spoke against the practice

B: He was a slave trader who supported continuing slavery

C: He was a former slave who spoke against the slave trade

D: he was a former slave who later became a slave owner

Olaudah Equiano, known for most of his life as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from, according to his memoir, the Eboe region of the Kingdom of Benin. Enslaved as a child in Africa, he was taken to the Caribbean and sold as a slave to a Royal Navy officer.

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C - He was a former slave who spoke against the slave trade

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Enslaved as a child in Africa, he was taken to the Caribbean and sold as a slave to a Royal Navy officer. He was sold twice more but purchased his freedom in 1766.  As a freedman in London, Equiano supported the British abolitionist movement. He was part of the Sons of Africa, an abolitionist group composed of Africans living in Britain, and he was active among leaders of the anti-slave trade movement in the 1780s. He published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789), which depicted the horrors of slavery. It went through nine editions in his lifetime and helped gain passage of the British Slave Trade Act 1807, which abolished the slave trade.

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2.) settlers could obtain cheap land nearby

3.) steam engine

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