Slavery and Race

Julia Jorati is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She specializes in early modern philosophy with a particular focus on metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and ethics. In addition to numerous articles about Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and several other early modern philosophers, she has authored the books Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century (2024) and Leibniz on Causation and Agency (2017). She is also the editor of Powers: A History (2021).

• Series editors' forewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Sixteenth-century debates about slavery and the Spanish conquest1.1 Francisco Tenamaztle1.2 Francisco de Vitoria1.3 Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda1.4 Bartolomé de las Casas1.5 José de Acosta2. Slavery, natural equality, and natural law in seventeenth-century Europe2.1 Francisco Suárez2.2 Hugo Grotius2.3 Samuel Pufendorf2.4 Gabrielle Suchon3. Slavery and social contract theory in seventeenth-century Europe3.1 Thomas Hobbes3.2 Algernon Sidney3.3 John Locke4. Natural inequality and natural slavery in seventeenth-century Europe4.1 Francis Bacon4.2 Yves de Paris4.3 Pierre Gassendi4.4 Johannes von Felden4.5 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz5. Critiques of transatlantic slavery in seventeenth-century Europe and America5.1 Alonso de Sandoval5.2 Quaker antislavery writings5.3 Richard Baxter5.4 Morgan Godwyn5.5 Epifanio de Moirans5.6 Thomas Tryon5.7 Aphra Behn5.8 Samuel Sewall5.9 ConclusionBibliographyIndex

I expect Slavery and Race to reshape curricula and research agendas in the history of philosophy, increasing diversity in terms of both themes and thinkers studied whilst promoting dialogues with adjacent disciplines in the humanities. Rigorously argued and full of insights, I highly recommend it.