After Abolition: Cugoano on ‘Lawful Servitude’ and the Injustice of Slavery

What made colonial slavery wrongful? This article reconstructs the answer given by a radical Black antislavery theorist writing in late eighteenth-century Britain: Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (c.1757–c.1791). His answer drew on lived experience. Born in present-day Ghana, Cugoano was enslaved aged 13 and...

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Main Author: Johan Olsthoorn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Aperio 2025-01-01
Series:Journal of Modern Philosophy
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Online Access:https://jmphil.org/article/id/2506/
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