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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.
Thomas Carlyle, Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question, Communicated by Thomas Carlyle, (London: Thomas Bosworth), 1853. CHAPTER I. *. (*This pamphlet was written by one of the profoundest thinkers in Europe, and first published in London in 1849, fifteen years after the fatal experiment of emancipation.) [Note: The preceding note is part ...
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.
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.
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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.” Image: Photograph of Thomas Carlyle, circa 1860s, by Eliott & Fry.
