Excerpt from An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties, and Literature of Negroes: Followed With an Account of the Life and Works of Fifteen Negroes and Mulattoes, Distinguished in Science, Literature and the Arts I beg leave to inform the reader that this transla tion was made from the manuscript of the author'; and with such haste, that an apology for its imper. Fections is necessary. The only merit I dare to claim, ifmerit it can be called, is that of not hav. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.