Name: Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) (en Inglés)
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Author: Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah ; Carretta, Vincent
ISBN: 9780140447507

portada Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano

Introducción de

Vincent Carretta

Editorial

Penguin Group

Año

1999

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

198

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

19.5 x 12.8 x 1.3 cm

Peso

0.16 kg.

ISBN

0140447504

ISBN13

9780140447507

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Afroamericanos
Estudios étnicos
Esclavitud y abolición de la esclavitud

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) (en Inglés)

Quobna Ottobah Cugoano (Autor) · Vincent Carretta (Introducción de) · Penguin Group · Tapa Blanda

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A freed slave's daring assertion of the evils of slavery Born in present-day Ghana, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano was 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. His Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery is the most direct criticism of slavery by a writer of African descent. Cugoano refutes pro-slavery arguments of the day, including slavery's supposed divine sanction; the belief that Africans gladly sold their own families into slavery; that Africans were especially suited to its rigors; and that West Indian slaves led better lives than European serfs. Exploiting his dual identity as both an African and a British citizen, Cugoano daringly asserted that all those under slavery's yoke had a moral obligation to rebel, while at the same time he appealed to white England's better self. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.