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

Book excerpt: "In his book, Grégoire systematically refutes all the major arguments for the inferiority of blacks, countering them with examples showing how blacks and black societies possess the same elements of intellect and civilization found in white societies. Its examples of African-American achievement, especially the biographical listings in Chapter VII, remained a standard source for abolitionist writings throughout the nineteenth century"--Jeffrey Makala, http://delphi.tcl.sc.edu/library/digital/collections/gregoireabout.html