"Jorati has written a fine synthesis of the philosophical debates about slavery and race in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book complements her separate companion volume for the same series, Oxford New Histories of Philosophy, in which she focuses on the eighteenth century. Together, both volumes will prove indispensable to college professors hoping to familiarize undergraduates with key debates in the history of slavery and race." -- Gregory D. Smithers, Journal of Southern History"the clarity of Jorati's prose and the accessibility of the book's structure will enable Slavery and Race to become a key text in a variety of pedagogical contexts. Because of this, Race and Slavery is an important contribution to eighteenth-century studies, as well as to interdisciplinary work on philosophies of slavery and ideologies of race, whose legacies remain with us in so many ways." -- Shelby Johnson, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies"Julia Jorati has done the profession a major service. Her two-volume Slavery and Race offers an exceedingly well-researched overview of early modern philosophical debates on slavery and race, centred on the unsavoury question of whether certain individuals or entire peoples are by God or nature meant to live in bondage.

Slavery and Race is a landmark contribution." -- Johan Olsthoorn, Mind"Overall, Slavery and Race represents a huge step forward for philosophical scholarship in early modern philosophy on slavery and race. For Jorati provides new source material as well as a fresh and up-to-date analysis of "old' (i.e., comparatively well-known) material. In doing so she sheds light on two issues that are-particularly considering their present-day ramifications-still too little discussed, while offering the resources to remedy this defect in future research and teaching." -- Manuel Fasko, Critical Philosophy of Race"Jorati's work contributes both to twentieth-century philosophical debates over the history of theories of race and racism-which study was largely initiated by philosophers such as Charles Mills and Robert Bernasconi, and historians such as George Fredrickson-and recent work by historians of philosophy who focus on specific philosophers' views on slavery. Jorati's Slavery and Race offers an extensively researched overview of discussions of slavery and race in the second half of the eighteenth century.

" -- Aminah Hasan-Birdwell, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie"Julia Jorati has done a huge service to the history of philosophy, but her book contributes substantially to the critical philosophy of race, African American philosophy, and Caribbean philosophy. Her work helps to broaden our conceptions of the history of philosophy to include themes and issues that have always been a part of it. Her book will shift research agendas and set new ones." -- Peter K.J. Park, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews"it is a stunning effort. Jorati is careful, sensitive, and as thorough as one can be in such a volume. Her achievement is considerable, and the book is an enormously useful resource that will help guide our study of modern philosophy in the years to come.

" -- Margaret Watkins, Journal of the History of Philosophy"Jorati's book will be of great value to anyone wishing to learn more about the philosophical background of slavery and race." -- Wangchen Zhou, International Sociology.