Vassa

[ vas-uh ]

noun

1. Gustavus Olaudah Equiano, c1745–1801?, enslaved African, sold in the West Indies, and, after gaining freedom, abolitionist and writer in England.

Example Sentences

The man who later told that story was Olaudah Equiano, who also went by the name Gustavus Vassa.

From Literature

After spending nearly twenty years in slavery in America, Olaudah Equiano was able to purchase his freedom and later wrote an autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African.

From Literature

He also hired a strength and conditioning coach specific to hockey as well as goaltender coaches who work with netminders Troy Wright and Andrew Vassa.

From Washington Post

Having established his origins, Equiano moves to describe his enslavement and transportation to the West Indies, and thence to Virginia, where he served as the slave of an officer in the Royal Navy, Michael Pascal, who renamed him “Gustavus Vassa” after the 16th-century Swedish king.

From The Guardian

So I went in her room and took a book with a faded blue cover, called Equiano’s Travels, or the Life of Gust aims Vassa the African.

From Literature