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Commentaire sur l'ouvrage de Quobna Ottobah Cugoano : Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery
Introduction : The text I have chosen to study for my presentation today is an excerpt from the book by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano entitled Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, also known as Thoughts and sentiments on the evil of slavery and was published in 1787. Born in present-day Ghana, Ottobah Cugoano was kidnapped and sold into slavery at the young age of 13. Cugoano worked in the sugar fields of a Grenadan plantation un...