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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Olaudah Equiano
Born: 1745
Died: March 31, 1797 (aged 52)
Bio: Olaudah Equiano, known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, was a prominent African in London, a freed slave who supported the British movement to end the slave trade.
Known for:
- Interesting Narrative and Other Writings (1789)
- Sold as a Slave
- Kidnapped Prince
- Equiano's Travels
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