How does Cugoano approach the topic of slavery in this
excerpt?
Read the excerpt from Thoughts and Sentiments.
It is therefore manifest, that something else ought yet to be
done; and what is required, is evidently the incumbent
duty of all men of enlightened understanding, and of every
man that has any claim or affinity to the name of Christian,
that the base treatment which the African Slaves undergo,
ought to be abolished; and it is moreover evident, that the
whole, or any part of that iniquitous traffic of slavery, can
no where, or in any degree, be admitted, but among those
who must eventually resign their own claim to any degree
of sensibility and humanity, for that of barbarians.
by praising the many good Christians who are
slaveholders
by claiming that enslaved people will be freed when they
become Christians
by describing people who need to be enlightened
by accusing supporters of slavery of being ignorant and
immoral