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Lunchtime Lecture: Equiano’s Women

With exhibition curator Victoria Avery, alongside researchers Dawnanna Kreeger and Carol Brown-Leonardi.

  • 15th May 2025 - 15th May 2025
  • 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Hear about the latest findings on prominent abolitionist and writer Olaudah Equiano (c.1745 – 1797) and the two pivotal women in his life: his wife, Susannah Cullen (1762–1796), from Ely, and his daughter, Joanna Vassa (1795–1857), born in Soham, raised in Chesterton and Cambridge, and later living in London.

 

Image: Joy Labinjo, Olaudah Equiano, 2022. Courtesy of the Vanhaerents Art Collection © Joy Labinjo. Courtesy of the Artist and Tiwani Contemporary. Photo © Deniz Guzel

Facilities

  • Air conditioned
  • Assistance dogs welcome
  • Disabled Accessibility
  • Facilities for Disabled Guests
  • Luggage storage
  • Non-Smoking Rooms
  • Restaurant
  • wheelchair accessible
  • WIFI

Accessibility Facilities

  • Assistance dogs welcome
  • Designated wheelchair public toilet
  • restaurant
  • Wheel chair accessible
  • Wheelchair accessible
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