Olaudah Equiano: From Slavery to Freedom

Band 15/Emerald
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level
Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level

Olaudah Equiano was kidnapped as a child from his village in Africa and shipped to America to begin life in slavery. This book recounts his amazing journey to freedom and how he eventually helped to put an end to slavery. The text and pictures graphically portray his life aboard ship, on the plantations and later life in the English gentry.

• Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
• Text type – A biography
• There is a useful glossary and a timeline of Olaudah's life to help children recount the information.
• Curriculum links – Citizenship : to realise the nature and consequences of racism; Geography: To recognise how places fit together within a wide geographical context.
• This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Contributor: Victor Ambrus (Illustrated by), (Prepared for publication by)

Illustrator: Victor Ambrus

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