19th Century French Texts
1772: Bernardin de Saint Pierre
1780-1788: Liberal monarchists and Enlightenment thinkers deplore the cruel, injust capture and abuse of Africans.
Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet [1743-1794]
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: Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet [1743-1794]
- Réglements de la sociétédes amis des noirs (French)
1789: L'Abbé Henri Grégoire [1750-1831]
1790: Olympe de Gouges [1745-1793]
1791: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
1792: Armand Guy Kersaint
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.
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: 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]
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]
1840: Gustave de Beaumont [1802-1866]
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]
1856: Pierre Faubert
1860: Victor Hugo
Miscellaneous
Abolitionist Poetry
Edouard Alletz [1798-1850]
Coriolan Ardouin [1818-1835]
Martial Barrois
Jean Blanc [1827]
Anne Bignan [1795-1861]
Victor Chauvet
M.D. (1823)
Amable Tastu [1795-1885]

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