and Andrew Curran, each essay included in this volume not only lays bare the origins of anti-Black racism in the West it provides an indispensable record of the Enlightenment-era thinking that normalized the sale and enslavement of Black human beings. Brought to life by a team of professional translators, and accompanied by a detailed introduction, timeline, and headnotes by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. These manuscripts have survived the centuries tucked away in Bordeaux’s municipal library.
1 The English translation by Anna Moschovakis won the 2021 International Booker Prize. First published in French on August 16, 2018, by ditions du Seuil, it won the Prix Goncourt des Lycens that same year.
'Soul brother') is a novel by French author David Diop. Despite their differences, looming behind these essays is the fact that some four million Africans had been kidnapped and shipped across the Atlantic by the time the contest was announced. At Night All Blood Is Black ( French: Frre d'me, lit. Some of their essays claimed that Africans had fallen from God’s grace others that blackness had resulted from a brutal climate several talked about humoral imbalances one surgeon who had worked on a New World plantation emphasized the anatomical specificity of Africans. In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences announced a competition for the best essay on the physical cause of “Black Skin and hair.” Sixteen essays, written in French and Latin, were ultimately dispatched to Europe’s first great “race contest.” The international cast of authors who participated included naturalists, physicians, theologians, and amateur savants. Harvard University Press | Amazon | B&N | Indiebound
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