Interesting Historical Figures - 1

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Date: 11 August 2005 09:02:33

As I'm not sure how much I'll be able to blog over the next few weeks I thought I'd start a series of occassional postings on people from the past who are interesting, but we may not have heard of.

No 1. Olaudah Equiano. He was a former slave in the 18th century who was influential in the fight against slavery, although he died well before abolition.

Refound via Tearfund who have produced a t-shirt giving the following quote from him:
"Can anyone be a Christian who asserts that one part of the human race were ordained to be in perpetual bondage to another?"

** Later note** Life changes and I will now be about to blogg alot more than I thought, still seems like a reasonable series to do**