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"Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" is an essay by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. It was first published anonymously in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in December 1849, and was revised and reprinted in 1853 as a pamphlet entitled "Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question".
- England
- Thomas Carlyle
- December 1849
- Fraser's Magazine
Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question THE following occasional discourse, delivered by we know not whom, and of date seemingly above a year back, may, perhaps, be welcome to here and there a speculative reader.
and again after the Civil War. In his Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" in the December 1849 issue of Fraser's Magazine, Carlyle de nounced British Liberals and humanitarians who agonized over the suf fering of blacks in Africa and the Americas but neglected the suffering of British workers and Irish peasants at home.
"First printed in Fraser's magazine [with title 'Occasional discourse on the Negro question'] (December, 1849); reprinted here, with some additions, and no other change"--Verso of title page. Series Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library Classification HT1091 .C19o 1853
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Thomas Carlyle's infamous essay, "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question", was published in 1849 in Fraser's Magazine of London. Carlyle revamped this essay and reprinted it in 1853 as a pamphlet entitled Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question.
On December 1849, Thomas Carlyle published “Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question” in Fraser’s Magazine; the article was later republished in his Critical and Miscellaneous Essays as “On the Nigger Question.”
Whereas Carlyle earlier approved of Mitchel’s arguments that Negroes and Jews “could not be emancipated from the laws of nature” (Duffy 117), his position in the “Occasional Discourse” shifted emphatically. For Carlyle and Mitchel, see Julie M. Dugger, Sorensen, and Michael Huggins.
