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Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

Name: Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery
Brand: Penguin Classics
SKU: 9780140447507
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Contributors:

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta (Introduction by)

Publisher:

Penguin Classics

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Social Science

Book Subcategory:

Slavery, Cultural & Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

American

Series:

Penguin Classics

Audience:

Young Adult

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Release Date:

1999-02-01

ISBN 13:

9780140447507

Weight:

0.36 lbs

Size:

7.68 x 5.02 x 0.50 inches

Pages:

240

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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 refutes pro-slavery arguments of the day, including slavery's supposed divine sanction; the belief that Africans gladly sold their own families into slavery; that Africans were especially suited to its rigors; and that West Indian slaves led better lives than European serfs. Exploiting his dual identity as both an African and a British citizen, Cugoano daringly asserted that all those under slavery's yoke had a moral obligation to rebel, while at the same time he appealed to white England's better self.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

About the Author
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was born in present-day Ghana. 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.

Vincent Carretta is professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of the Complete Writings of Phillis Wheatley, Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, and Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by Ottobah Cugoano.

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