Struggle and Freedom: The Stories of Ottobah Cugoano and Olaudah Equiano

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QUOBNA OTTOBAH CUGOANO was born in "Agimaque, now in Ghana. There are
Cugoano was also kidnapped for selling as slave in 1770. When he was kidnapped, he faced very
high struggle for archiving freedom again. It always sold one slave owner to another. In the year
1772, an Englishman bought Cugoano for taking work from him in its sugar cane plantation in
England (Through and Sentiments on the Evils of Slavery. Ottobah Cuguano, 1787). On that
time, he turned to Christianity and changed own name with John Stuart. Cugoano was freed,
Cugoano learned to read, for integrating itself into high the society. He begins own Narrative on
the basis of own memories of Africa. For example; memories of his birth, memories kidnapping,
memories which has based on slavery, etc.
The “Thoughts and sentiments on the Evils if Slavery’ book was published in 1787 by
Ottobah Cuguano aka John Stuart. Currently the main purpose of this book is to show the
struggle of black African guy the era of 1700-1800. In this book, Cuguano was shared those all
incidents which had faced when he a slave. The main audience for this book is only those people
who really wants to know about that era when life of black people was completely over in
slavery. With Cugoano, there was many other African people also get kidnapped for selling to
slave traders. On the other side, there are each writer always tries achieve full attention from
readers when they read that writer’s book, novel or literature. According to different writers,
readers give full attention in book or novel only tin that condition when that particular book has
too interesting. In this situation, narrative of Cugoano is able to take full attention of a reader,
because Cugoano was shared those incidents in this book which currently people can’t imagine.
Cugoano shared in his book that, he faced very huge struggle in his whole life, because he was a
black African person. On that time, black people were only symbol of slavery. White people
purchased black people from different slave traders for taking very high work from them. That
was the actual slave trend in the era of 1700 to1800. Most readers always get very emotional
while reading about the struggle of black African guy.
Ottobah Cuguano’s book ‘Thoughts and sentiments on the Evils if Slavery’ teaches to
readers that, life which currently people are living is very easy in the comparison of those slaves.