Grégoire, Henri

De la littérature des nègres, ou recherches sur leurs facultés intellectuelles, leurs qualités morales et leur littérature; suivies de notices sur la vie et les ouvrages des nègres qui se sont distingués dans les sciences, les lettres et les arts.

Paris, chez Maradan, 1808. 8vo. xvi + 288 pp. Contemporary boards, worn, some occasional light staining and foxing. First edition of the first history of Black literature. “This now scarce volume set the standards by which most biographical and historical works on gifted blacks were written during the following decades” (Charles L. Blockson). Charles L. Blockson, A commented bibliography of one hundred and one influential books by and about people of African descent, 18 (first American ed., 1810). Sabin 28727.

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