An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes

Download or read book An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes written by Henri Grégoire and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Abbé Henri-Baptiste Grégoire (1750-1831), a Catholic priest and bishop, was a leading French abolitionist at the turn of the eighteenth century, a participant in the Revolution of 1789, and a member of its governing assembly. His work An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes was first published in 1808. The first edition in English, the complete text of which is included here, was brought out in 1810 by Brooklyn printer Thomas Kirk"--Digital Collections home page.