Abstract

TATIAN, Diego. The power of slaves. Conjecture about a silence of Spinoza. Co-herencia [online]. 2018, vol.15, n.28, pp.225-244. ISSN 1794-5887.  https://doi.org/10.17230/co-herencia.15.28.10.

In a letter of July 20, 1664 Spinoza tells his friend Peter Balling a dream with “a certain black and leprous Brazilian”. Maybe that’s the one and only mention into Spinoza’s work that refers to the New World -where Holland had colonies. From that dream, the present text inquiries about the coexistence ofthemodernphilosophiesoffreedomwiththerealslavery of thousands of human beings in America, and in particular about the silence of Spinoza regarding the slave trade in the American colonies.

Keywords : Philosophy; racism; freedom; slavery; marranism..

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