Millions of Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas in the eighteenth century. Europeans--many of whom viewed themselves as enlightened--endorsed, funded, legislated, and executed the slave trade. This atrocity had a profound impact on philosophy, but historians of the discipline have so far neglected to address the topics of slavery and race. Many authors--including enslaved and formerly enslaved Black authors--used philosophical ideas to advocate for abolition, analyze racist attitudes, and critique racial bias. Other authors attempted to justify the transatlantic slave trade by advancing philosophical defenses of racial chattel slavery.
Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century explores these philosophical ideas and arguments, with a focus on the role race played in discussions of slavery. In doing so, author Julia Jorati reveals how closely associated Blackness and slavery were at that time and how many White people viewed Black people as naturally destined for slavery. In addition to examining well-known authors like David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jorati also discusses less widely studied philosophers like Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Lemuel Haynes, and Olympe de Gouges. By revealing important aspects of debates about slavery in North America and Europe, this book and its companion volume on the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries are valuable resources for readers interested in a more complete history of early modern philosophy.
By:
Julia Jorati
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 163mm,
Width: 226mm,
Spine: 33mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780197659243
ISBN 10: 0197659241
Series: Oxford New Histories of Philosophy
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 30 March 2024
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Series editors>' foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. North American debates about slavery and race 1.1 Equal natural rights 1.2 The Golden Rule and imaginary role reversal 1.3 Souls, salvation, and slavery 1.4 Natural capacities, equality, and slavery 1.5 The nature, origins, and effects of racial bias 2. Scottish debates about slavery and race 2.1 Gershom Carmichael 2.2 Francis Hutcheson 2.3 David Hume 2.4 George Wallace 2.5 Adam Ferguson 2.6 James Beattie 2.7 James Dunbar 2.8 James Ramsay 3. English debates about slavery and race 3.1 Edward Trelawny 3.2 Thomas Rutherforth 3.3 Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade 3.4 Thomas Clarkson 3.5 Dorothy Kilner 3.6 Quobna Ottobah Cugoano 3.7 Olaudah Equiano 3.8 Mary Wollstonecraft 4. Francophone debates about slavery and race 4.1 Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu 4.2 Jean-Jacques Rousseau 4.3 Voltaire 4.4 Diderot>'s and D>'Alembert>'s Encyclopedia 4.5 Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, Denis Diderot, Jean-Joseph de Pechméja, and the History of the Two Indies 4.6 Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet 4.7 Olympe de Gouges 5. Dutch and German debates about slavery and race 5.1 Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein 5.2 Immanuel Kant Bibliography Index
Julia Jorati is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She specializes in early modern philosophy with a particular focus on metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and ethics. In addition to numerous articles about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and several other early modern philosophers, she is the author of Leibniz on Causation and Agency and the editor of Powers: A History.
