In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
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October 9, 2020
PHILLIS WHEATLEY: BRITISH LIBRARY ENTRY
Abolitionists, for their part, also supported Wheatley as they did other African writers, arguing that by their literary merit and Christian witness they were living proof of the slave trade’s immorality.
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October 9, 2020
IGNATIUS SANCHO: BRITISH LIBRARY ENTRY (EXTRACT)
Despite his high-society associations, his ownership of property and his right to vote, Sancho was always aware of his African heritage.
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October 9, 2020
OTTOBAH CUGOANO: BRITISH LIBRARY ENTRY
It was the first book written by an African to demand the total abolition of the slave trade. It was also the first to press for reparations to African nations impacted by large-scale human trafficking.
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July 13, 2020
OLAUDAH EQUIANO
At 44, he wrote and published his autobiography, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, registering it at Stationer’s Hall, London, in 1789.