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' foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Sixteenth-century debates about slavery and the Spanish conquest 1.1 Francisco Tenamaztle 1.2 Francisco de Vitoria 1.3 Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda 1.4 Bartolomé de las Casas 1.5 José de Acosta 2. Slavery, natural equality, and natural law in seventeenth-century Europe 2.1 Francisco Suárez 2.2 Hugo Grotius 2.3 Samuel Pufendorf 2.4 Gabrielle Suchon 3. Slavery and social contract theory in seventeenth-century Europe 3.1 Thomas Hobbes 3.2 Algernon Sidney 3.3 John Locke 4. Natural inequality and natural slavery in seventeenth-century Europe 4.1 Francis Bacon 4.2 Yves de Paris 4.3 Pierre Gassendi 4.4 Johannes von Felden 4.5 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 5. Critiques of transatlantic slavery in seventeenth-century Europe and America 5.1 Alonso de Sandoval 5.2 Quaker antislavery writings 5.3 Richard Baxter 5.4 Morgan Godwyn 5.5 Epifanio de Moirans 5.6 Thomas Tryon 5.7 Aphra Behn 5.8 Samuel Sewall 5.9 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.