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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.
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.
“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).
However, Carlyle’s humanitarian concerns only extended to the white working classes and his opinions of people of colour and views on slavery were shockingly expressed in his ‘Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question’, published anonymously in Fraser’s Magazine in February 1849.
