Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of SlaveryBy: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano A freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slavery Born 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. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery is the most direct criticism of slavery by a writer of African descent. Cugoano

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