Black British Politicians - Diane Abbott, List of Ethnic Minority British Politicians, Olaudah Equiano, Oona King, Paul Boateng, Trevor Phillips (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Diane Abbott, List of ethnic minority British politicians, Olaudah Equiano, Oona King, Paul Boateng, Trevor Phillips, Lee Jasper, Chuka Umunna, Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos, Henry Sylvester-Williams, Shaun Bailey, David Lammy, Helen Grant, Miranda Grell, Dawn Butler, John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick, Paul Stephenson, Linda Bellos, Derek Laud, Bernie Grant, Kwasi Kwarteng, Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth, Adam Afriyie, Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale, Sam Gyimah, John Archer, Chi Onwurah, Doreen Lawrence, James Cleverly, David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead, Ottobah Cugoano, William Cuffay, Allan Glaisyer Minns, Herman Ouseley, Baron Ouseley, Jocelyn Barrow, Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids. Excerpt: The list of people who belong to ethnic minorities who have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Union and other British devolved assemblies and also Members of the un-elected House of Lords. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 - 31 March 1797), also known as Gustavus Vassa, was a prominent African involved in the British movement towards the abolition of the slave trade. His autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade through the Slave Trade Act of 1807. Despite his enslavement as a young man, he purchased his freedom and worked as an author, merchant and explorer in South America, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the American colonies, and the United Kingdom. According to his own account, Olaudah Equiano was born in an Igbo village in what is now Nigeria, in 1745. At the age of eleven, he was kidnapped with a younger sister by kingsmen and forced into Domestic slavery in another native village. The region had a chieftain hierarchy tied to slavery. Until then Equiano had never seen a European whi...