# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ottobah-cugoano
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:34:55.824Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ottobah-cugoano"
name: "Ottobah Cugoano"
slug: "ottobah-cugoano"
description: "Ottobah Cugoano, also known as John Stuart, was a British abolitionist and activist who was born in the Gold Coast. He was sold into slavery at the age of thirteen and shipped to Grenada in the West Indies. In 1772, he was purchased by a merchant who took him to England, where Cugoano learned to read and write, and was emancipated. Eventually, he started working for the artists Richard and Maria Cosway, becoming acquainted with several prominent British political and cultural figures as a result. He joined the Sons of Africa, a group of Black abolitionists in Britain, and died at some point after 1791."
tagline: "British abolitionist and activist (1757–1791)"
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gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1757"
deathDate: "1791"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump