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19th Century French Texts

1770-1788 1789-1804 1804-1814 1815-1830 1831-1848
1849-1900 Misc. Poetry    

 

1770-1788: Liberal monarchists and Enlightenment thinkers deplore the cruel, injust capture and abuse of Africans.

1770: L’Abbé Raynal

1772: Bernardin de Saint Pierre

1777: Decree that barred blacks and people of color from entering France: 1777, 1802

Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet [1743-1794]

1785: L’Abbé Raynal

1786: Olympe de Gouges [1745-1793]

1788: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Paul et Virginie

1788: Olympe de Gouges [1745-1793]

 

1789-1804: The Amis des Noirs argue for rights for free persons of color; liberal writers plead the cause of victimized blacks.

1789: Débats, L'Ancien Moniteur

1789: Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet [1743-1794]

1789: L'Abbé Henri Grégoire [1750-1831]

1790: Olympe de Gouges [1745-1793]

1790: Jérome Pétion de Villeneuve

1791: Claude Milscent

1791: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

1792: Armand Guy Kersaint

1792: Claude Milscent

1794: Antoine-Pierre-Augustin de Piis

1795: Germaine de Staël [1766-1817]

1797: Moreau de Saint-Méry

1800: Mungo Park

 

1804-1814: Until the fall of Napoleon, few French writers speak out about blacks or slavery.

1808: L'Abbé Henri Grégoire [1750-1831]

1814: Germaine de Staël [1766-1817]

 

1815-1830: During the Restoration, writings about blacks flourish; in 1825, Charles X recognizes the independence of Haiti.

1815: L'Abbé Henri Grégoire [1750-1831]

1816: Charlotte Dard [1798-1862]

1820: Victor Hugo [1802-1885]

1820: Henriette-Lucy Dillon, Marquise de La Tour du Pin de Gouvernet [1770-1853]

1821: Marceline Desbordes-Valmore [1786-1859] (French)

1822: Thomas Clarkson [1760-1846]

1822: L'Abbé Henri Grégoire [1750-1831]

1823: Claire de Duras [1777-1828]

1823: L'Abbé Henri Grégoire [1750-1831]

1824: Charles de Rémusat [1797-1875]

1824: Charlotte Dard [1798-1862]

1825: Sophie Doin [1800-1846]

1825: L'Abbé Henri Grégoire [1750-1831]

1827: Benjamin Constant [1767-1830]

1828: Benjamin Constant [1767-1830]

1829: Prosper Mérimée [1803-1870]

 

1831-1848: Demands for the amelioration of the treatment of blacks gives way to “immediatist” calls for full emancipation.

1832: Société de la morale chrétienne, pétition pour le rachat des négresses esclaves dans les colonies françaises

1832: George Sand [1804-1876]

1833: Victor Schoelcher [1804-1893]

1834: Eugénie Foa [1796-1852] ; pseudonym Maria Fitz-Clarens

1837: Granier de Cassagnac [1806-1880]

1840: Granier de Cassagnac [1806-1880]

1840: Gustave de Beaumont [1802-1866]

1840: Gustave d’Eichtal [1804-1886]

1840: Victor Schoelcher [1804-1893]

1844: Victor Schoelcher [1804-1893]

1845: Théodore Pavie [1811-1896]

  • Une Chasse aux nègres-marrons

1847: Victor Schoelcher [1804-1893]

1848: Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies

 

1849-1900: A number of writers return to the history of slavery after its official end in 1848.

1850: Alphonse de Lamartine [1790-1869]

1860: Victor Hugo

1897: Lucien Peytraud

Miscellaneous

 

Abolitionist Poetry

Edouard Alletz [1798-1850]

Martial Barrois

Jean Blanc [1827]

Anne Bignan [1795-1861]

Victor Chauvet

M.D. (1823)

Amable Tastu [1795-1885]

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