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Ottobah Cugoano (c. 1757 – after 1791), also known as John Stuart, was an abolitionist, political activist, and natural rights philosopher from West Africa who was active in Great Britain in the latter half of the 18th century.
Ottabah Cugoano circa 1757 — after 1787 Mary Perth was among the first free black settlers from Nova Scotia (Canada) to settle in Freetown, Sierra Leone. She owned a boarding house and she worked as the governor’s housekeeper and cared for and taught African-born children.
20 de nov. de 2020 · Learn about Ottobah Cugoano, one of the first formerly enslaved people to write and publish a text in English, and his life at Schomberg House, where he worked as a servant and campaigned against slavery. See the blue plaque erected by English Heritage in 2020 to commemorate his legacy.
Learn about Ottobah Cugoano, the first African to demand total abolition of slavery in England. He was a former slave who wrote a book, joined the Sons of Africa, and fought for the rights of his people.
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was a respected abolitionist in 18th Century Britain - but, despite his significant role in the abolition of the slave trade and slavery, his story is not that...
Cugoano (1757–unknown) was an Afro-British abolition-ist who at the age of thirteen was kidnapped from Ghana, labored in Grenada, Ottobah and eventually setled in England.1 In late eighteenth-century Britain, he distinguished himself from white abolitionist such as Thomas Clarkson and William Wilberforce with his radical vision for the disman-tl...
from abolitionists, such as Ottobah Cugoano, who illuminated the par-adox it created for European societies who concurrently profited from the trade while their cherished religious, reasoning, and property-based values were violated by its existence and consequently threatened with hypocrisy. Helena Woodard has previously drawn attention to "con-
