Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment

Louis Sala-Molins

Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment
Format
Hardback
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Country
United States
Published
1 September 2006
Pages
176
ISBN
9780816643882

Dark Side of the Light: Slavery and the French Enlightenment

Louis Sala-Molins

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.

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