Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment
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Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau and Montesquieu are best known for their humanist theories and liberating influence on Western civilization. But as renowned French intellectual Louis Sala-Molins shows, Enlightenment discourses and scholars were also complicit in the Atlantic slave trade, becoming instruments of oppression and inequality. Translated into English for the first time, Dark Side of the Light scrutinizes Condorcet's Reflections...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0816643881
ISBN13:9780816643882
Release Date:February 2006
Publisher:University of Minnesota Press
Length:165 Pages
Weight:0.66 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.1" x 8.3"
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