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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. Captured in the Gold Coast and sold into slavery at the age of 13, he was shipped to Grenada in the West ...
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (1757?-1801?) abolicionista de Ghana activo en Inglaterra en la última mitad del siglo XVIII. Biografía. Nacido entre los fante, pueblo que constituiría más tarde Ghana, fue secuestrado y vendido como esclavo en 1770.
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 · Ottobah Cugoano was an anti-slavery campaigner and one of the first formerly enslaved people to write and publish a text in the English language. He is commemorated with a blue plaque at Schomberg House on Pall Mall, where from about 1784 until 1791 he worked as a servant while writing and campaigning.
30 de sept. de 2023 · September 30, 2023. Ottobah Quobna Cugoano was a Ghanaian abducted as a child and trafficked to Britain who rose above the horrors of slavery to become a famous abolitionist, working for the freedom and dignity of his fellow enslaved people. Quobna Cugoano’s story begins in the heart of Africa, in what is present-day Ghana, where ...
toward his contemporary and political counterpart Quobna Ottobah Cugoano. The reason for the lack of scholarship is simple: very little information documenting Cugoano's life exists, and he falls out of his-torical record altogether following the publication of the 1791 edition of his narrative. Researchers must derive their information on Ottobah
St James's Church, Piccadilly, is marking the 250th anniversary of the baptism of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano. Cugoano, who was one of the most prominent abolitionists of the time, was...
