Slavery and Race : Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century / Julia Jorati.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jorati, Julia, author.

Series:

Oxford new histories of philosophy.

Oxford New Histories of Philosophy Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Enslaved persons--Philosophy--History--18th century.

Enslaved persons.

Race--Philosophy--History--18th century.

Race.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This book explores a topic that historians of philosophy have so far neglected almost completely: debates about the morality of slavery in eighteenth-century North America and Europe. Author Julia Jorati pays particular attention to the role that race plays in these debates. Each of the five chapters covers intriguing and philosophically important texts about slavery and race from a specific geographic region: North America, Scotland, England, France, and lastly, the Netherlands and Germany. The book--and a companion volume also by Jorati on slavery and race in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--will serve as a resource for scholars, instructors, and students of philosophy and neighboring disciplines.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Slavery and Race

Copyright

Contents

Series Editors' Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I.1. Thematic Focus

I.2. Background and Terminology for Discussing Slavery

I.3. Background and Terminology for Discussing Race and Racism

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 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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780197659274

0197659276

9780197659267

0197659268

9780197659250

019765925X