“From Sentiment to Security: Cugoano, Liberal Principles, and the Bonds of Empire” (original) (raw)

2017

Abstract

Contextualizing Cuguano’s Thoughts and Sentiments (1787) in the transformative decade of the 1780s, this essay examines the specific ways in which Cugoano’s argument against the modern slave trade negotiates the discourses of sentiment and security, raising important theoretical questions regarding the development of “liberal principles” and late eighteenth-century British Empire. Thoughts and Sentiments brings into focus the problematics coincident with the historical development of liberalism in so far as it evinces a mind thinking the possibilities of human emancipation while simultaneously acknowledging the ineluctable bonds between human liberty and state instrumentalities—bonds which, moreover, have undergone various morphologies and intensifications but which manifest immanently in political-commercial relations among humans of the past two hundred years and in our present moment.

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