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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
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.
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.
Series. Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library. Classification. HT1091 .C19o 1853. Repository. Houghton Library, Harvard University. Record ID. 990029805810203941.
- christine_jacobson@ harvard. edu
- Houghton Library
In 1853, Carlyle reprinted his 1849 article as a separate pamphlet entitled Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question. Besides the revealing change in the title, the 1853 pamphlet included some additional discussion, partly in response to Mill.
Carlyle reinvests 'cheque words' with value in the 'Nigger Question' by using dramatic, hyperbolic, and metaphorical devices that resemble black performance style. Black performance art informs the structure as well as the style of Carlyle's 'Occasional Discourse'. In 'An Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question' Thomas Carlyle was ...
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.”
