BAME people in British politics, 1750-1850: A story of unrecorded presence

废除奴隶制的历史在英国和英国政治中是一个自1807年《奴隶法》以来200年来一直得到很好服务的领域。这一时期在英国政治史上具有如此重要的意义，因为废除死刑的原因所在的环境。在废奴运动之外，17世纪和18世纪是西方思想和启蒙的发展时期。这一时期拥有一些世界上最伟大的政治理论家和一些最有影响力的政治理论著作。这是一个欧洲普遍发展、国际殖民扩张、革命和战争的时期。在一定程度上，正是由于这种变化，形成了关于自然权利、社会契约理论、普遍主义、财产所有权等新思想，并成为大多数西方政治制度的基础。在这一时期知识分子的宽泛学术中，有一些思想家的工作被忽视了。其中一位思想家是Ottobah Cugoano(约1757-1791年后)，他是一名非洲黑人前奴隶，18世纪居住在英国，曾为艺术家理查德·科斯韦工作。在科斯韦的服务期间，他学会了阅读，并在Olaudah Equiano的帮助下，Olaudah Equiano，一个受过教育的非洲裔英国人和前奴隶，写下了关于奴隶制的邪恶和邪恶的贩运和人类物种的商业谦虚地提交给大不列颠居民的思想和情感，由非洲土著Ottobah Cugoano(这里在1787/1791年之后的思想和情感)。他们还在废止组织非洲之子组织中合作。

The history of abolition in Britain and in British Politics is an area that has been well served over the 200 years since the Slave Trade Act 1807. This period is of such critical importance to British political history because of the environment that the cause for abolition arose from. Outside of the abolition movement, the 17th and 18th centuries see the development of western thought and the enlightenment. This period holds some of the world's greatest political theorists and some of the most influential works of political theory. This is a period when Europe is experiencing widespread development, international colonial expansion, revolution and wars. It is in part due to this flux that new ideas about natural rights, social contract theory, universalism, property ownership etc are formed and become the basis of most western political systems. Within the broad scholarship of the intellectuals of this period there are thinkers whose work has been overlooked. One of these thinkers is Ottobah Cugoano (c.1757 - after 1791), a Black African ex-slave, living in Britain in the 18th century who worked as a servant for the artist Richard Cosway. While in the service of Cosway he learned to read and with the help of Olaudah Equiano, a fellow educated Afro-Britain and former slave, wrote Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great Britain by Ottobah Cugoano a Native of Africa (here after Thoughts and Sentiments 1787/1791). They also worked collaboratively in the abolition group the Sons of Africa.