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Cugoano Against Slavery

ISBN-13: 9781906190972

Contributor(s): Martin Hoyles

Subjects: Slavery & Abolition of Slavery

Publisher: Hansib Publications

Publisher Imprint: Hansib Publications

Publication Date: 01-06-2015

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£9.99

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About the book

Out of the three leading black figures in 18th-century England (Sancho, Equiano and Cugoano), Ottobah Cugoano is the least well known. He campaigned not just against the slave trade but for a total abolition of slavery. In 1770, at the age of 13, he was sold into slavery forced to work on a plantation in the West Indies. In 1772 Cugoano gained his freedom in England where he wrote to key political figures against the slave trade. Cugoano's passionate rhetoric and reasoned argument make his book a milestone in anti-slavery literature.

Cugoano Against Slavery

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