Although the Philosophes Condemned Slavery,they Did Not Argue for Its

Multiple Choice

Although the philosophes condemned slavery,they did not argue for its immediate abolition and used many different means of avoiding the issue.One of their number,_________,exposed the hypocrisy of this approach by wondering how the Europeans would view slavery if they themselves were being enslaved.

A) Baron de Montesquieu
B) Denis Diderot
C) Voltaire
D) Jean Calas
E) Moses Mendelssohn