Documenting Black Intellectual Achievement in the 18th Century Abbé Grégoire’s Foundational Antiracist Work "An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes", First American Edition
[African American][Slavery and Abolition] Grégoire, Henri. "An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes..." First American Edition. This work constitutes one of the earliest sustained Enlightenment arguments in print asserting the intellectual and moral equality of people of African descent. Originally published in French in 1808.....