An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes

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M.E. Sharpe, 1997 - 122 ページ
Gregoire was an early nineteenth century French Roman Catholic bishop who turned his attention to the place of African Americans in Catholic and Euro-American thought. His work is, among other things, a devastating critique of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, in which the third president muses about black inferiority. Gregoire's views made an American edition difficult, as Jefferson opposed the book's appearance. An Enquiry is one of the few of Gregoire's thirty-plus books to be translated into English, and its publication in Brooklyn in 1810 was an event for African Americans. In this new edition, Graham Hodges presents a pristine reproduction of the original text in modern font, and offers a critical introduction to Gregoire, Franco-American abolitionism, and the influence of this important work on the development of the African American intellectual tradition.

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xxxi ページ - sacred soil, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of universal
xxxi ページ - burnt upon him; no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down; no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted on the altar of slavery: the first moment he touches our sacred soil, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his
106 ページ - fancy'd happy seat: What pangs excruciating must molest, What sorrows labour in my parents' breast? Steel'd was that soul, and by no misery mov'd, That from a father seized his babe belov'd: Such, such my case: And can I then but pray Others may never feel tyrannic sway? etc. etc.
47 ページ - men of probity, models of filial, conjugal and paternal affection, who know all the energies and refinements of virtue, among whom sentimental impressions are more deep, because they observe, more than we, the dictates of nature, and know how to sacrifice personal interest to the ties of friendship. Golberry furnishes many proofs of this.
47 ページ - hospitable: their amiable simplicity, says he, in this enchanting country, recalled to me the idea of the primitive race of man: I thought I saw the world in its infancy. They have generally preserved an estimable simplicity of domestic manners. They are

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