(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) GREGOIRE ABBE H An Enquiry Concernin

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(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) GREGOIRE, ABBE H. An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes; Followed with an Account of the Life an Works of Fifteen Negroes & Mulattoes, Distinguished in Science, Literature and the Arts. 253, [iv], pages. Small 8vo, original 19th century full tree calf; spine with five gilt rules, red morocco label in one of them; front joint repaired, and firm. Brooklyn: Thomas Kirk, 1810

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a very nice copy of a classic examination and defense of the intellectual capacity of the negro. Gregoire and other abolitionists on both sides of the Atlantic sought to establish the "capacity" of the Negro. Not every one would rise to the level of a Phillis Wheatley, Ignacio Sancho, or Olaudah Equiano, but the "capacity" was there. Gregoire in France and Theodore Dwight in America tried to prove that black Africa not only had the capacity but a written language, which of course was Arabic.