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Joanna Vassa : ウィキペディア英語版 | Joanna Vassa
Joanna Vassa (1795-1857) was the only surviving child of the former slave and anti-slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano.〔Adam Hochschild, ''Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery'', Pan, 2006.〕 Her grave has recently been rediscovered in Abney Park Cemetery, London, but little is known of her life. ==Early life and family==
She was born to Susannah Cullen of Fordham, Cambridgeshire, and Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, the African") on 11 April 1795, and baptised on 29 April. Her father was well known for his autobiography, ''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano''〔''The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa. An African man. Written by Himself''. 8th Edition, London, 1794.〕 (1789). Her mother was a subscriber to Equiano's ''Narrative'' and they were married on 7 April 1792 in Soham. The year after Joanna's birth, Susannah died of an illness, on 21 February 1796, and was buried at St Andrew's Church, Soham. Joanna's father died just over a year later.〔Vincent Caretta, ''Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century'', The University Press of Kentucky, 2003.〕 Shortly afterwards followed the death of her elder sister and only sibling Anna Maria (born 30 January 1793), on 21 July 1797.;〔Peter Fryer, ''Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain'', London: Pluto Press, 1984〕 Anna Maria is commemorated by a poetic plaque outside St Andrew's Church, Chesterton. Mixed race children were not common in eighteenth century England, but nor, as the British Empire grew, were they unknown, especially in the capital and port cities.
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