Read the excerpt from Thoughts and Sentiments.
In these excerpts, how does Cugoano's purpose differ
It is therefore manifest, that something else ought yet to
from Sancho's purpose?
iS be done; and what is required, is evidently the incumbent
duty of all men of enlightened understanding, and of
• Cugoano is hoping that a few enslaved people can be
every man that has any claim or affinity to the name of
released, while Sancho is hoping that Sterne can
Christian, that the base treatment which the African
abolish slavery altogether.
Slaves undergo, ought to be abolished; and it is
• Cugoano makes references to his Christian faith,
moreover evident, that the whole, or any part of that
while Sancho stays away from the topic of religion
iniquitous traffic of slavery, can no where, or in any
altogether.
degree, be admitted, but among those who must
• Sancho is humbly asking for someone's help, while
eventually resign their own claim to any degree of
Cugoano is asking for immediate and drastic changes
sensibility and humanity, for that of barbarians.
in policies about slavery.
Read the excerpt from Letters of the Late Ignatius
© Sancho is informing the general public about the
Sancho, An African.
horrors of slavery, while Cugoano is writing a private
letter.
I am sure you will applaud me for beseeching you to give
one half hour's attention to slavery, as it is at this day
practised in our West Indies.That subject, handled in
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