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Equiano

Mauritius & Caribbean

Olaudah Equiano was born in a Nigerian village in the late 1700s and, like many others, he was enslaved while still a child to be sent to the New World. From here, he begins a story of emancipation, first personal and then universal. Paid the ransom that makes him a free man again, Equiano settles in London and becomes one of the first English-speaking African writers, fighting for the abolition of slavery. His autobiography becomes a literary case and gives further strength to the abolitionist movements of that time.

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Equiano

More than 200 years after the adventures of Equiano, the Gray Distillery of Mauritius and the Foursquare of Barbados have joined forces to create a rum copying the path of his life, from Africa to the New World. The result is a one-of-a-kind rum, the first Afro-Caribbean ever made. Equiano was born in Mauritian Gray style from a distillate of indigenous sugar cane molasses, aging both in Limousin wooden barrels as well as in ex Cognac ones; then it moves to Barbados where it is enriched with Foursquare Single Blended Rums. The blend of these rums faces a further period of Caribbean maturation inside American oak barrels, which reaches 8 years and gives it considerable complexity.

A revolutionary, experimental rum, as courageous as the ideas of his alter ego in flesh and blood, Olaudah Equiano.