Sons of Africa
Sons of Africa | |
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| Founder | Ottobah Cugoano Olaudah Equiano Other former black slaves |
| Founded | 1787 |
| Ideology | Slavery abolition Black people rights Racial equality |
The Sons of Africa were a late-18th-century group in Britain that campaigned to end African chattel slavery. The "corresponding society" has been called Britain's first black political organisation. Its members were educated Africans in London, including formerly enslaved men such as Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano and other leading members of London's black community.
It was closely connected to the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, a non-denominational group founded in 1787 by Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson.