Olaudah

Whelped 18 July 2014.
Full name: Olaudah Equiano

A tribute to Olaudah Equiano, a/k/a Gustavus Vassa (1745-1797), a prominent African abolitionist and freed slave, who supported the British movement to end the slave trade. Enslaved as a child in his village of Essaka, in what is now southern Nigeria, he was shipped to the West Indies, and sold in Virginia. With his master, an officer in the Royal Navy, he moved to England, where he purchased his freedom. He wrote his autobiography, in which he depicts the horrors of slavery and which influenced the enactment of the British Slave Trade Act of 1807, abolishing the African slave trade.

Olaudah is the strongest of four males who look somewhat alike. He is quite greedy on the teat, and one of the most active too (hence the hand to keep him in place while I was taking the picture!).