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Ottobah Cugoano was a British abolitionist and activist who was born in West Africa and sold into slavery as a child. He wrote a book arguing for the abolition of slavery and emancipation of enslaved people, and was supported by prominent figures such as William Blake and George III.
18 de ago. de 2015 · 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.
Learn about Cugoano's life, from his capture and enslavement in Ghana to his freedom and activism in London. He was one of the first to demand the end of slavery as a whole, not just the trade, and to support enslaved resistance.
20 de set. de 2023 · 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...
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.
Cugoano's challenge to the African slave trade reveals that it has the possibility of being simultaneously sustained and undermined by the principles of Christianity, reason, and property ownership.
St James's Church, Piccadilly, is dedicating a plaque and an artwork to Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, who was baptised there in 1773 after being freed from slavery. Cugoano was a prominent abolitionist and author of "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery".
