<p><p><BR>This new edition of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre&rsquo;s play Empsa&euml;l et Zora&iuml;de presented in a modernised spelling makes available a text which illustrates his abolitionist stance through its central irony: the masters are black and their slaves white joining forces in the antislavery debate which reached its height with the French Revolution.</p><BR><P></p>