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Abolition demands the end of slavery, including the institutions that sustain it. Cugoano tests ownership claims against the liberty of the person being enslaved.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 54
Who was left outside the language of rights?
Wollstonecraft and Cugoano challenge the exclusion of women and of enslaved people from equal liberty. What do their arguments demand of education, ownership and public institutions?