Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery - Brossura

Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0140447504 ISBN 13: 9780140447507

Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group, 1999

Riassunto

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.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

"Vincent Carretta singlehandedly has transformed our understanding of the origins of the Anglo-African literary tradition. He has breathed new life into texts long thought dead" —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

L'autore:

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was sold into slavery in 1770 from Ghana at the age of thirteen. He worked in the West Indies before being freed in England.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Penguin Publishing Group
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140447504
• ISBN 13: 9780140447507
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240