The “Address of Abolishing The slave Trade” was a pamphlet, addressed to the National
Assembly, in the year of August, 11, 1789 and created and written by a group called “The
Society of the Friends of the Blacks”. The group consisted of French citizens that lived in France during the of the French revolution, in Paris France. The main reason for the creation of the pamphlet was to address the National Assembly, of the the abolishment, of the slave trade.
The pamphlet was written, by every member of the society, under the direction of the creator of the group called Jacques-Pierre Brissot and consisted a decree or a petition to abolish the trade of slavery only, but not to abolish slavery altogether in the country of France.
The founder and leader of the “Society of The Friends of The Blacks” was Jacques-Pierre
Brissot, who was a philosopher, legislator, and writer of the 1700 century in Paris France. “The society Of The Friends of the Blacks, consisted of exactly 141 French members, some were philosophers and others were noblemen. What they all had in common was they believed, in the same cause to abolish the trading of the slaves. The society was created in the year of 1788, in
Paris France, the idea was adopted by the same similar beliefs. When Jacques-Pierre Brissot travelled to the United States, and in Philadelphia he met Thomas Jefferson, and attended “The
Philadelphia Constitutional convention”, during this convention Jacques-Pierre Brissot became interested and engaged. Later on Jacques-Pierre Brissot travelled to England where he met
Thomas Clarkson, who was also an abolitionist that was the real creator and advocate of “The
Society of the Friends of The Blacks”. While visiting, Jacques-P...
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Finally in the year of 1794, on the fourth of February, The First Republic Convention of France, abolished slavery in every French colony. Than in the year of 1802 Napoleon restored slavery, making it legal again to own slaves, in the French colonies. Later in the year of 1848, slavery was indefinitely declared illegal in every French colony.
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“The Social Contract” written by Jean Jacques Rousseau, published in the year of 1762.
“The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade” written by Christopher L. Miller published in the year of January, 11, 2008 by Duke University Press.
“Brissot de Warville: a study in the history of the French revolution” written by Eloise Ellery, published in the year of 1915 by the Houghton Mifflin Company.
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