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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2025-01-01
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Series: | Journal of Modern Philosophy |
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