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Abolition on the Eve of Revolution: Cugoano and Condorcet

March 11, 2025 Quobna Ottobah Cugoano’s book Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (1787) – the first comprehensive antislavery treatise by a Black writer in the Western world – called for immediate abolition and enjoined the British nation to undertake a comprehensive reparation of relations with the enslaved people and African polities that had been devastated by the triangular trade. Presenting evidence that the French politician Condorcet was the principal agent in quickly bringing Cugoano’s powerful jeremiad to the French reading public in an anonymous translation, perhaps in collaboration with his wife Sophie de Grouchy, Jennifer Pitts considers the implications of this episode for our understanding of the transnational abolitionist movement on the eve of the French Revolution.