Joanna Vassa
Joanna Vassa (1795-1857) was the only surviving descendant of author, Methodist and leading Anti-Slavery campaigner Olaudah Equiano, otherwise known as Gustavus Vassa the African. Joanna's early life was tragic. In 1796, only a year after her birth, her English mother, Susannah Cullen of Fordham, Cambridgeshire, died, and was buried at St Andrew's Church, Soham. In the following year, her famous West African father Equiano died in London (31st March 1797, aged 52), … Wikipedia
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