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Ottobah Cugoano

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Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, also known as John Stuart , was an African abolitionist and natural rights philosopher from Ghana who was active in England in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Captured in present-day Ghana and sold into slavery at the age of 13, he was shipped to Grenada in the Lesser Antilles, where he worked on a plantation. In 1772 he was purchased by an English merchant who took him to England, where he was taught to read and write, and was freed following the ruling in the Somersett Case . Later working for artists Richard and Maria Cosway, he became acquainted with British political and cultural figures. He joined the Sons of Africa, African abolitionists in England.

Ottobah Cugoano

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Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, also known as John Stuart , was an African abolitionist and natural rights philosopher from Ghana who was active in England in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Captured in present-day Ghana and sold into slavery at the age of 13, he was shipped to Grenada in the Lesser Antilles, where he worked on a plantation. In 1772 he was purchased by an English merchant who took him to England, where he was taught to read and write, and was freed following the ruling in the Somersett Case . Later working for artists Richard and Maria Cosway, he became acquainted with British political and cultural figures. He joined the Sons of Africa, African abolitionists in England.

Books from Ottobah Cugoano

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

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Thomas Clarkson and Ottobah Cugoano: Essays on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species

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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species

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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery; or, The Nature of Servitude as Admitted by the Law of God, compared the the Modern Slavery of the Africans in the West Indies

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Réflexions sur la traite et l'eclavage des Nègres

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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery (Annotated)

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Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americas

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