Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Vincent Carretta
Introduction by Vincent Carretta
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Illustrations
Suggestions for Further Reading
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the
Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to The
Inhabitants of Great-Britain, by Ottobah Cugoano, a Native of
Africa.
London: 1787
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery; or, the
Nature of Servitude as Admitted by the Law of God, Compared to the
Modern Slavery of the Africans in the West-Indies; In an Answer to
the Advocates for Slavery and Oppression. Addressed to the Sons of
Africa, by a Native.
London: 1791
Explanatory Notes to the 1787 Publication
Explanatory Notes to the 1791 Publication
Appendix: Correspondence of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano
Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was born in present-day Ghana. Kidnapped at
the age of thirteen and sold into slavery by his fellow Africans in
1770, he worked in the brutal plantation chain gangs of the West
Indies before being freed in England.
Vincent Carretta is professor of English at the University of
Maryland, College Park. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics
editions of the Complete Writings of Phillis Wheatley, Letters of
the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African, and Thoughts and Sentiments
on the Evil of Slaveryby Ottobah Cugoano.
"Vincent Carretta singlehandedly has transformed our understanding of the origins of the Anglo-African literary tradition. He has breathed new life into texts long thought dead" —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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