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ID

86

Surname Wadström

First Name Carl Bernhard

Title

Au citoyen Taleyrand, ministre des relations extérieures (Paris le 17 frimaire, an 6)

Classification Letter

Place of Publication Paris

Publisher C. Pougens

Date 1798

Language French

Translations

Theme Abolition Campaigns

Source

British Library. Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Kongelige Bibliotek, Danmark.

Weblink

Document Wadstrom View near Bain.pdf

Key Words

Colonies Abolition Slave Trade Swedish Letter French Talleyrand Translation

Precis

The Swedish colonial theorist and abolitionist Carl Wadström's letter to the French Foreign Secretary Talleyrand was written in December 1797 and published as a preface to the French translation of his Essay on Colonization. He suggests the development of a "rivalry of generosity" (v) between Britain and France, supported by international law, and favoring colonization in Africa through a number of measures, including the abolition of the slave trade.

Notes

Published as a preface to the French translation of C. B. Wadström's An Essay on Colonization, entitled: Précis sur l'établissement des colonies de Sierra Leona et de Boulama à la Côte Occidentale de l'Afrique (Paris: C. Pougens, an VI [1798]). See the attached download for more information about Wadström's colonial projects in West Africa.