Olaudah Equiano Tea Towel Jungalow Modern and Contemporary African art

Modern and Contemporary African art is at the forefront of the current curatorial and collector movement in today’s art scene

On 31 May 1921

Tyler Mitchell

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Olaudah Equiano Tea Towel Jungalow Modern and Contemporary African artOlaudah Equiano Tea Towel Kidnapped from a village in what is now Nigeria, Olaudah Equiano was sold into slavery in Virginia at 11 years old. After spending eight years travelling the world enslaved by a British Royal Navy officer, he eventually bought his own freedom in 1766 for 40 almost a years salary for a teacher. Equiano then worked as an explorer and merchant for 20 years before settling in England, where he supported other people who had