St James's Church, Piccadilly, is marking the 250th anniversary of the baptism of Quobna Ottobah Cugoano. Cugoano, who was one of the most prominent abolitionists of the time, was baptised at the ...
A copy of the pamphlet was sent to every MP. In 1787, 'Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery' by Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, an ex-enslaved person, was published. In England, a group of black ...