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- W2184748495 abstract "The belief that all humans have rights and an inherent dignity that must be respected is not a concept that originated only in the writings of prominent figures of the European Enlightenment such as Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant, Hume and Locke. Human rights discourse has many and varied roots. For a variety of reasons, though, the history of human rights in the eighteenth century is too often limited to the Enlightenment. However, human right concerns are also discerned in the works of earlier African American writers, because even during the heyday of Enlightenment the abuse of the rights of women, children, indigenous peoples, and the practice of Atlantic slave trade, were still glaringly evident. These concerns were ignored by dominant white culture because in the eighteenth century people of African origins were not even considered participants in the developing human rights conversation. Laurence Moredekai Thomas acknowledges the difficulty that eighteenth century whites may have had imagining blacks as speaking subjects because, “at the time of American Slavery, Africa was not thought to have had a central role in the history of moral and intellectual Western thought—not even, in fact, the role of a substantial footnote”. [1] This is very true from the many observations made by the Enlightenment philosophers. It will suffice to quote David Hume, one of the Scottish Moralists, who wrote in 1753 in his Of National Characters that:" @default.
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- W2184748495 title "A Dream Deferred: Exploring Human Rights Issues in African American Autobiographies by Women" @default.
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