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Julia Jorati, Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford University Press, 2024, 338pp., $39.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780197659243.
Reviewed by Peter K. J. Park, University of Texas at Dallas
Thanks to Julia Jorati, it is now harder to be a researcher or teacher of early modern philosophy and not know what early modern European philosophers thought and argued concerning the racial chattel slavery being conducted by their countrymen and, also, what they said about the fact that the people being enslaved were Black. Two books by Jorati on early modern philosophical debates on issues of slavery and race have been published within the last two years. One covers the eighteenth century. The other book covers the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This review is about the former.
Jorati has researched more than two-hundred primary texts from just the eighteenth century; by around fifty authors engaged in debating these matters philosophically in addition to debating them…
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