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Staël
Auguste [Baron de]
Comité pour l'abolition de la traite des noirs. Société formée à Liverpool pour l’adoucissement et l’abolition graduelle de l’esclavage
Article
Paris
Bureau de la Société de la Morale Chrétienne
1823
French
Abolition Campaigns
Bibliothèque Nationale de France. British Library. Friends House Library, London.
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Journal Society Christian Morality Liverpool Society Gradual Abolition Slavery Correspondence France Britain
This article by the Baron de Staël, which was published in the Journal of the Society of Christian Morality, focuses on the relationship between British and French abolitionism. In it, the continuing French slave trade is described as a national shame, carried out by France's "unworthy children" (41). De Staël argues that France should work with Britain to ensure full compliance with anti-slave trading treaties, dismissing nationalist concerns with the idea of collaboration with France's "natural enemy" as "blasphemy" (43). It is printed together with a translation of a letter from J. Price, the Committee's foreign correspondent in Britain, and an announcement of the founding of the Liverpool Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery in 1823, translated into French, which concludes enthusiastically that: "the views of the Liverpool Society are so much in accord with our own [...] We recommend them to the consideration of our readers" (58-59).
In Journal de la Société de la Morale Chrétienne, vol. 2, no.7 (1823), 41-60. Additional author: J. Price. Also published as a pamphlet: Extrait du Journal de la Société de la Morale Chrétienne no.7: Société formée à Liverpool pour l’adoucissement et l’abolition graduelle de l’esclavage (Paris: Crapelet, 1823).