It's a passionate anti-slavery message, with Equiano unflinchingly recounting the horrors of the slave trade to make his readers cringe (I defy you to read his account of the Middle Passage, or how he mentions seeing 9 year old African girls raped by white men, without wanting to throw up) and making reasoned arguments against it. The interesting thing about this book is that Equiano doesn't just survive the Middle Passage, but actually crosses the Atlantic multiple times, traveling from South America to England to the American Colonies to the Caribbean to the Middle East, all while trying to win his freedom. The slave world now intrudes upon Georgian society and the conflict within our story therefore begins.Generally regarded as one of the best slave narratives ever written, the book is Equiano describing his life, beginning with how he was kidnapped in Africa at age 11 and sold into slavery. Our story begins with the introduction of Olaudah Equiano in a meeting with Granville Sharp. The blending of fact and fiction created an artistic interpretation of Equiano as a character that I am proud of and would still like to see in a live action feature film.

It meant recreating some incidents during this period in his life and applying artistic licence to invent the narrative. The film writer and director, Jason Young, says: ‘I had to imagine what their relationship would have been like for the four years that they were married (1792-96). Jason Young’s animation, ‘The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano’, focuses on their marriage as a backdrop to the campaign to abolish the slave trade. English womenwere a halfway position for freed slaves in 18th and 19th century England to guarantee not only their own freedom but the freedom of their offspring. The incentive to marrying a white woman in Georgian England was to have children who were born into freedom without the fear of them being kidnapped and shipped off into plantation slavery in the British Caribbean. She is only mentioned in one sentence in his book, ‘The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by himself’. The film – ‘The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano’ – is a fictionalised account of the marriage between Equiano and his white wife. (One of their daughters, Anna Maria, is buried at St Andrew’s church in Chesterton.) The African abolitionist, Olaudah Equiano, married an English woman by the name of Susannah Cullen on the 7th April 1792 in Soham, Cambridgeshire. FILM: ‘The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano’ Directed by Jason Young

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