Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition
Hannah Spahn, "Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition "
English | ISBN: 0813951194 | 2024 | 328 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0813951194 | 2024 | 328 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson’s ideas
The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, so central to conceptions of the American founding, did not emerge fully formed as a coherent set of ideas in the eighteenth century. As Hannah Spahn argues in this important book, no group had a more profound influence on their development and reception than Black intellectuals. The rationalism and universalism most associated with Jefferson today, she shows, actually sprang from critical engagements with his thought by writers such as David Walker, Lemuel Haynes, Frederick Douglass, and W. E. B. Du Bois.
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