An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes: Followed with an Account of the Life and Works of Fifteen Negroes and Mullatos, Distinguished in Science, Literature and the Arts

A new facsimile from the first translation into English of Grégoire's counterblast to Jefferson and others, with his detailed defense of contemporary African, Caribbean, and African-American writers such as Ignatius Sancho, Olaudah Equiano, and Phillis Wheatley. First edition in French, 1808; this translation first printed in 1810. Reproduced from the first edition in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of South Carolina Libraries.