Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery Cugoano Quobna Ottobah
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery Cugoano Quobna Ottobah A freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slaveryBorn in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the…
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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery Cugoano Quobna Ottobah
A freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slaveryBorn in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770; he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West Indies before being freed in England. Cugoano refutes pro-slavery arguments of the day, including slavery's supposed divine sanction; the belief that Africans gladly sold their own families into slavery; that Africans were especially suited to its rigors; and that West Indian slaves led better lives than European serfs. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery is the most direct criticism of slavery by a writer of African descent.
Exploiting his dual identity as both an African and a British citizen, Cugoano daringly asserted that all those under slavery's yoke had a moral obligation to rebel, while at the
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