BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, Jacques-Pierre.

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BRISSOT DE WARVILLE, Jacques-Pierre.
Brief on the Blacks of North America, read at the meeting of the Society of Friends of Blacks, February 9, 1789. Paris, at the office of the French patriot, Bailly, De Senne, December 20, 1789. Brochure in-8 (217 x 150 mm) of 56 pp.; paperback. Original edition of this famous memoir against slavery. Brissot was, with Clavières and Mirabeau, one of the founders of the Société des Amis des Noirs, an association founded in 1788 after a stay in England. This society campaigned for an end to the slave trade and the abolition of slavery, and came up against the powerful lobby of slave settlers who accused him of being "anti-French", and even of seeking to "exterminate the whites" (retronews.fr). "The moment when the cause of blacks will be discussed is approaching. We must therefore prepare the public to hear it; we must make them aware of these unfortunate men whom greed is relentlessly trying to decry... there is no difference in morale & intellectuals between blacks and whites" (p.55). Carefully washed copy, small restorations in the margins, traces of wetness.
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