Note: As part of Black History Month, I’ll be posting excerpts from my book, Beyond the Suffering: Learning from the Legacy of African American Soul Care. It’s powerful to study Black Church History. It is even more powerful and impactful to learn from and to apply lessons from the history of African American one-another ministry.
Earlier, we learned from Olaudah Equiano. You can enjoy that post here: Learning from the Legacy of African American Soul Care. In today’s post, we learn from Quobna Cugoano.
Quobna Cugoano’s Narrative
Olaudah Equiano was not alone in perceiving with faith eyes the hidden work of God. The oft invisible hand of God softly, yet firmly, left his compassionate fingerprints on the trusting hearts of millions of enslaved Africans including Quobna Cugoano.
Cugoano was born on the coast of present-day Ghana, in the Fante village of Agimaque. In 1770, at the age of 13, he was playing with other children, enjoying peace and tranquility and the amusement of catching wild birds, “when several great ruffians came upon us suddenly.”
Led away at gunpoint, they eventually came to a town where Cugoano saw several white people, “which made me afraid that they would eat me, according
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