Born in Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770. Exploiting his dual identity as an African and a British citizen, the author asserted that those under slavery's yoke had a moral obligation to rebel, while at the same time he appealed to white England's better self.
Born in Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped at the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in 1770. Exploiting his dual identity as an African and a British citizen, the author asserted that those under slavery's yoke had a moral obligation to rebel, while at the same time he appealed to white England's better self.
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was born in present-day Ghana. 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. Vincent Carretta is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of the Complete Writings of Phillis Wheatley, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, and Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by Ottobah Cugoano.
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Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Vincent Carretta Introduction by Vincent Carretta Acknowledgments A Note on the Text Illustrations Suggestions for Further Reading Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to The Inhabitants of Great-Britain, by Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa. London: 1787 Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery; or, the Nature of Servitude as Admitted by the Law of God, Compared to the Modern Slavery of the Africans in the West-Indies; In an Answer to the Advocates for Slavery and Oppression. Addressed to the Sons of Africa, by a Native. London: 1791 Explanatory Notes to the 1787 Publication Explanatory Notes to the 1791 Publication Appendix: Correspondence of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Vincent Carretta Introduction by Vincent Carretta Acknowledgments A Note on the Text Illustrations Suggestions for Further Reading Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to The Inhabitants of Great-Britain, by Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of Africa. London: 1787 Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery; or, the Nature of Servitude as Admitted by the Law of God, Compared to the Modern Slavery of the Africans in the West-Indies; In an Answer to the Advocates for Slavery and Oppression. Addressed to the Sons of Africa, by a Native. London: 1791 Explanatory Notes to the 1787 Publication Explanatory Notes to the 1791 Publication Appendix: Correspondence of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
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