| LC control no. | no 88001339 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cugoano, Ottobah |
| Variant(s) | Cugoano, Ottabah Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah |
| Associated country | England |
| Associated place | Sierra Leone |
| Birth date | 1757 |
| Death date | 1803 |
| Place of birth | Ghana Fante Territory (Ghana) |
| Field of activity | Slavery--Africa--History Slave trade--Africa--History |
| Affiliation | Sons of Africa |
| Profession or occupation | Essayists Authors |
| Found in | McElroy, F. Prophets of universal redemption, 1987: t.p. (Ottabah Cugoano) LC data base, 7/15/88 (hdg.: Cugoano, Ottobah) Three black writers in eighteenth century England, 1971: p.43 (Ottobah Cugoano [1757-?]). Thoughts and sentiments on the Evil of Slavery, 1969: t.p. (Ottobah Cugoano) t.p. of repr. (Ottobah Cugoano) Thoughts and sentiments on the evil of slavery and other writings, 1999: CIP t.p. (Quobna Ottobah Cugoano) Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Cugoano, Ottobah; slave, abolitionist, essayist, slave narrative author); Ajumako, Ghana in 1757 (or possibly in Fante Territory, Ghana; abducted by slave traders in 1770; bought by a white man in the West Indies in 1772 he was taken to England, where he learned to read and write and was baptized; he expressed his abolitionist beliefs in his 1787 book, Thoughts and sentiments on the evil and wicked traffic of the slavery and commerce of the human species. He became a member of the Sons of Africa, a black British abolitionist organization. He died in 1803) |
| Associated language | eng |
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