Quobna Ottobah Cugoano était un esclave affranchi d’origine ghanéenne, figure de la lutte abolitionniste.

Son ouvrage "Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery" (1787) ferait de lui le premier auteur anti-esclavagiste noir.

Conférence de Jennifer Pitts, Collège de France, 14 mai 2024 :
"Les Lumières et l’esclavage : Cugoano, Condorcet et les débats sur l’abolition à la veille de la Révolution"

https://www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/conferencier-invite/les-lumieres-et-esclavage-cugoano-condorcet-et-les-debats-sur-abolition-la-veille-de-la-revolution

Richard Cosway, "Richard and Maria Cosway, and Ottobah Cugoano", 1784

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Les lumières et l’esclavage : Cugoano, Condorcet et les débats sur l’abolition à la veille de la Révolution | Collège de France

"The volume charts the development of #DuBois's anti-imperial thought, drawing attention to his persistent concern with the relationship between democracy and #empire .. "

#WEBDuBoisInternationalThought with eds. #AdomGetachew & #JenniferPitts

https://newbooksnetwork.com/w-e-b-du-bois-international-thought

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Podcast | Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois:…

Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts eds. "W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

New Books Network

Event

#DuBois’s International Thought: #Empire, #Race & #PoliticalEconomy

March 24th, 2023
12 - 1:30pm Pacific Time (hybrid event w/ Zoom option)

"..the Network welcomes Prof. #JenniferPitts from the Univ of Chicago to discuss #WEBDuBois’s views on the 'world shadow' cast by democratic despotism. The talk draws upon Prof Pitts’s recent edited volume #WEBDuBoisInternationalThought

#RacialCapitalism #Imperialism #IR #InternationalRelations #books

https://n2pe.berkeley.edu/events/du-bois-international-thought/

Du Bois’s International Thought: Empire, Race, and Political Economy - Network for a New Political Economy

On March 24th, the Network welcomes Prof. Jennifer Pitts from the University of Chicago to discuss W.E.B. Du Bois’s views on the “world shadow” cast by democratic despotism. The talk draws upon Prof. Pitts’s recent edited volume W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought (2022, Cambridge University Press, with Adom Getachew). Prof. David Singh Grewal (Berkeley […]

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