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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".
Here, sure enough, are peculiar views of the rights of negroes; involving, it is probable, peculiar ditto of innumerable other rights, duties, expectations, wrongs and disappointments, much argued of, by logic and by grape-shot, in these emancipated epochs of the human mind.
Series. Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library. Classification. HT1091 .C19o 1853. Repository. Houghton Library, Harvard University. Record ID. 990029805810203941.
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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.
Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question. The essay " Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question " was written by Thomas Carlyle about the acceptability of using black slaves and indentured servants. It was first anonymously published as an article in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in December, 1849, [1] and was reprinted as ...
“Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question” (1849) that the marriage of “Exeter-Hall Philanthropy and the Dismal Science” would “give birth to progenies and prodigies, dark extensive moon-calves, unnamable abortions, wide-coiled monstrosities, such as the world has not seen hitherto!” (Works 29: 354).
most overtly racist essays, "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Ques-tion" (1849), published just months after he toured Ireland with Duffy. Examining Young Ireland's involvement with Carlyle makes it clear that the movement, despite its emphasis on neutralized national identity, shared Carlyle's skepticism about theories of progress that
