I know over the summer I’m going to Bend.  Actually I’m leaving on the 24Th of June. I have a softball tournament for 12u North Tornados. It should be really fun! Then later we have State in Salem! So not softball related my family is going to the beach yay!!! That’s my SUMMER!!

I have had a lot of fun this year.I learned how to use a active expresion it was cooooool!  So i know right a lot cause theres to much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~BYE~

Ashley Ripplinger

1745- Olaudah Equiano was born in Eboe.

1756- Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped and sent across the Atlantic to the West Indies and then Virginia.

1763- Olaudah was purchased by Robert King a Quaker merchant from Philadelphia for whom he served as a clerk.

1767- Olaudah was going to school and working as an assistant to a scientist Dr.Charles Irving.

1773- Equiano went on a polar expedition with Irving in search of a Northeast Passage from Europe to Asia.

1789- Olaudah published a book of his life the Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano.

1792- Olaudah married Susanna Cullen with her he had two daughters the oldest is Anna-Maria and the youngest is Joanna.

1797- Olaudah Equiano die’s a rich man in London.

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I’m going to tell you a story of Olaudah Equiano. Olaudah was born in 1745 in a place called Eboe, which is now known as Nigeria. Unfortunately he was kidnapped and sold out to slave traders at the age eleven.

     His first travels were to the West Indies where he saw the sale of slaves. He was not purchased as a slave until he got to North America. Olaudah was put to work on a Virginia plantation doing light work. He wasn’t in Virginia very long before Michael Henry Pascal bought him.

      Mr. Pascal was a lieutenant in the British navy and purchased Olaudah as a present for his friends in England. Mr. Pascal changed Olaudah’s name to Gustavus Vassa.

       Equiano served as a slave under this name. He worked as a clerk and also on his owners trading sloops. By doing this he was allowed to do his own small trades, earning enough money to by his freedom in 1766.

         He was able to go to school and work as an assistant for a scientist in England. Olaudah continued to travel on the ships to many different countries even though he was free.

          Olaudah got married in 1792 to Susanna Cullen. They had two daughters and he continued his life as an author and abolitionist until he died in 1797 in London.

            Even though Olaudah Equiano was a slave for most of his life.  He still had a chance for a education and have a family of his own.