Julia Jorati is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She specializes in early modern philosophy with a focus on metaphysics, political philosophy, and ethics. In addition to numerous articles about early modern philosophers, she has authored the books Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Oxford 2024), Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford 2024), and Leibniz on Causation and Agency (Cambridge 2017). She is currently working on the companion volume to this anthology, Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy 1765-1800: Essential Readings.

• Series Editors' ForewordAcknowledgementsNote on the TextsIntroduction1. Francisco de Vitoria, Lecture on the Indians (1538)2. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Second Democrates (c. 1544)3. Francisco de Vitoria, "Letter to Bernardino de Vique" (1546)4. Bartolomé de las Casas, Defense of the Indians (c. 1550)5. Francisco Tenamaztle, "Letter to Charles I and the Council of the Indies" (1555)6. Bartolomé de las Casas, History of the Indies (before 1561)7. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, On Royal Power (1571)8. Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (1625)9. Alonso de Sandoval, The Nature, Authority, Customs, and Rites of all Blacks (1627)10. Thomas Hobbes, "Of the Right of Masters over Slaves" (1642)11. Richard Baxter, "The Duties of Masters Towards their Servants" (1673)12. Morgan Godwyn, The Negro's and Indians Advocate (1680)13. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, "Division of Society" (1680)14. Epifanio de Moirans, A Just Defense of the Natural Freedom of Slaves (1682)15. Thomas Tryon, "The Negroes' Complaint" (1684)16. Aphra Behn, Oroonoko: Or, the Royal Slave (1688)17. John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (1689)18. Gabrielle Suchon, Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693)19. Samuel Sewall, The Selling of Joseph (1700)20. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, "On the Common Notion of Justice" (1703)21. Anonymous, A Letter from a Merchant at Jamaica to a Member of Parliament in London, Touching the African Trade (1708)22. Anonymous, "A Speech Made by a Black at Gardaloupe Gardaloupe at the Funeral of a Fellow Negro" (1709)23. Anonymous, "Arguments Against Making Slaves of Men" (1713)24. John Hepburn, The American Defense of the Christian Golden Rule (1714)25. William Snelgrave, A New Account of Some Parts of Guinea and the Slave Trade (1734)26. Aaron Hill, "Editorial for The Prompter" (1735)27. Moses Bon Sáam, "The Speech of Moses Bon Sáam" (1735)28. Jacobus Elisa Johannes Capitein, Political-Theological Dissertation about Slavery (1742)29. Francis Hutcheson, A System of Moral Philosophy (before 1746)30. Montesquieu, "How the Laws of Civil Slavery are Related to the Nature of the Climate" (1748)31. John Woolman, Some Considerations on the Keeping of Negroes (1754/1762)32. Anonymous, Two Dialogues on the Man-Trade (1760)33. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract (1762)34. Adam Smith, Lectures on Jurisprudence (1763)BibliographyIndex