For more than two hundred years, stretching back into the eighteenth century, there were people, inspired by the science and philosophy of the Enlightenment, who believed in progress, in the ...

The term "Enlightenment," rooted in an intellectual skepticism to traditional beliefs and dogmas, denotes an "illumined" contrast to the supposed dark and superstitious character of the Middle Ages.

On the Rights of Moors in Europe [De Jure Maurorum in Europa], ‘likely the first defence of Black people written on German soil’. [ii] Whilst undertaking his studies, Amo had been immersed in the ...