University of Wisconsin: Slavery - Guilty PartiesSeized—by other blacks, not whites—force-marched to the coast, sold and crammed into ships, they made the 30-40-day voyage to the Americas where they were sold as slaves. Olaudah Equiano told how, as a child in what is now Nigeria, he was stolen into slavery.
In his memoirs, published in England in 1789, Olaudah Equiano told how, as a child in what is now Nigeria, he was stolen into slavery.
