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Quobna Cugoano: London church honours Ghanaian-born freed slave and abolitionist

2023-09-20 09:58
Quobna Cugoano was captured by slavers aged 13 but later played a big part in the UK abolition movement.
Quobna Cugoano: London church honours Ghanaian-born freed slave and abolitionist

Artist Che Lovelace was on his way to the coast on the Caribbean island of Trinidad to collect mud to use in carnival celebrations when he received a message that a church in the UK wanted him to create an artwork to commemorate the life of an African man he had never heard of.

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