Data di Pubblicazione:
2016
Abstract:
This paper deals with the issue of the relationship between Enlightenment
and slavery from an historiographical point of view, highlighting how
far in the last decades studies have been revisited to such an extent that consolidated
interpretations have been completely overturned.
After being subtracted to the oblivion to which the 19th century condemned
them and after being elevated to fathers of antislavery, Enlightenment
thinkers gradually became, on the historiographical scene, first moderate
critics of slavery, then, in recent studies, its supporters. These pages
aim to reconstruct how this process occurred, analyzing studies and works
on French Enlightenment from the beginning of the 19th century until today.
They also want to bring out the distortions which the trial about slavery
in a catholic as well as in a secular culture against the Enlightenment
have generated also among not specialized public opinion.
Tipologia CRIS:
03A-Articolo su Rivista
Keywords:
Enlightenment, Slavery, Historiography
Elenco autori:
Delpiano, Patrizia
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