Around the triangle -- The slave trade in the Enlightenment -- The veeritions of history -- Gendering abolitionism -- Olympe de Gouges, "earwitness to the ills of America" -- Madame de Staël, Mirza, ...
Sometimes the slightest crack in an otherwise solid foundation can trigger the wholesale collapse of an edifice. Such was the case with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, a practice that began in the ...