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Ottobah Cugoano. Ottobah Cugoano ( c. 1757 – c. 1791 ), also known as John Stuart, was a British abolitionist and activist who was born in West Africa. Born into a Fante family in Ajumako, 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 ...
Ottobah Cugoano was an anti-slavery campaigner and one of the first formerly enslaved peoples 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.
Ottobah Cugoano, also known as John Stuart (c.1757 – after 1791), was an African abolitionist who was active in England in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Captured and sold into slavery at the age of 13 in present-day Ghana, he was shipped to Grenada. In 1772 he was purchased by an English merchant who took him to England, where he ...
Ottobah Cugoano was an African-born abolitionist who rose to prominence after gaining his freedom in England. Cugoano was born around 1757 in present-day Ghana. His family was politically well connected, but that fact did not prevent Cugoano’s capture outside his village when he was about thirteen years old. He was sold into the transatlantic ...
Nov 20, 2020 · Ottobah Cugoano was born in a village near the coast of Ghana, formerly known as the Gold Coast. He was kidnapped in 1770 while playing with other children in a field and was sold to Europeans in ...
Aug 20, 2023 · Cugoano's exact dates of birth and death are unknown. His baptism on 20 August 1773 at St James's is the only place and date that is verifiably part of his story, the diocese said.
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Apr 5, 2024 · See Bernasconi, “Ottobah Cugoano’s Place in the History”, 33–35. Muthu situates Cugoano within the Enlightenment tradition (Muthu, “A Cosmopolitanism”, 248–259). Much promising work has been done on the natural law tradition in relation to early Black thinkers, such as Vincent W. Lloyd, Black Natural Law.
