Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Olaudah Equiano ('Gustavus Vassa') NPG D8546

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Daniel Orme, published by Olaudah Equiano ('Gustavus Vassa'), after W. Denton

Olaudah Equiano was born in Essaka, in what is now southeastern Nigeria. He was kidnapped into slavery at the age of eleven and put to work for a number of different masters in America, the West Indies and Europe. It was while in the Americas that Equiano developed his skills as an entrepreneur, using his many voyages to turn a profit on goods he carried with him and resold. Such financial dealings eventually enabled him to purchase his own freedom 1n 1766, and he returned... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.