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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, [1] and was revised and reprinted in 1853 as a pamphlet entitled "Occasional Discourse on the Nigger ...
With this view the Council has decided, both that the Negro Question, as lying at the bottom, was to be the first handled, and if possible the first settled; and then also, what was of much more questionable wisdom, that — that, in short, I was to be speaker on the occasion.
May 17, 2022 · If the Laws of Heaven do authorize you to keep the whole world in a pother about this question; if you really can appeal to the Almighty God upon it, and set common interests, and terrestrial considerations, and common sense, at defiance in behalf of it,—why, in Heaven's name, not go to Cuba and Brazil with a sufficiency of 74-gun ...
As the Colonial and Negro Question is still alive, and likely to grow livelier for some time, we have accepted the Article, at a cheap market-rate; and give it publicity,
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.”
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
"Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" was first published in December 1849, the same year as Carlyle's Irish tour with Duffy (he revised and republished the essay in 1853, retitling it "Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question" [August vii]). The essay addresses the shortage of African labor in the West Indies following the abolition
