April 29, 2020

Slavery

Published in 1789, Equiano’s book about slavery changed the debate in England and the Atlantic world. He describes the “prejudice that some conceive against the natives […]
September 16, 2022

Racism and the Enlightenment

  The promise of the Enlightenment coexisted side by side with a darker reality: slavery. Foreign trade boomed in the eighteenth century, fueled by the importation […]