Natural Rights in the Early Modern Atlantic World: Religion and the Emergence of Antislavery in Enlightenment France.
This article reintegrates religion into the history of French Enlightenment abolitionism, thereby reconstructing its fundamental influence on shaping a movement that is commonly perceived as secular. It makes two main points. First, the roots of antislavery thought were religious: it emerged from th...
| Publicado en: | Slavery & Abolition Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 59 - 84 |
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