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.
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Richard and Maria Cosway, and Ottobah Cugoano (1784), by Richard Cosway
Title page of Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787)
Revd Lucy Winkett and Revd Dr Rosemarie Mallett at the dedication of the plaque commemorating 250th anniversary of Cugoano's baptism, 20 August 2023
Blue plaque on Schomberg HouseWriters born in the 1750s 6
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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.
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