Des Colonies Françaises: Abolition Immédiate de l'Esclavage

Schoelcher, Victor, Des Colonies Françaises: Abolition Immédiate de l'Esclavage, Reproduction de l’édition de 1842, Société d’Histoire de la Guadeloupe, Société d’Histoire de la Martinique, 1976.

Victor Schoelcher (22 July 1804, Paris - 25 December 1893, Houilles) was a French abolitionist writer in the 19th century and the main spokesman for a group from Paris who worked for the abolition of slavery, and formed an abolition society in 1834. He worked especially hard for the abolition of slavery on the Caribbean islands. (...) He was responsible for the publication of many articles regarding slavery between 1833 and 1847 in which he focused on positive aspects of abolishing slavery. Schoelcher was also intent on social, economic, and political changes being made in the Caribbean colonies. He thought that the production of sugar should continue in the colonies but large central factories should be constructed rather than using slave labor. Schoelcher was the first European abolitionist to visit Haiti and had a large influence on the abolitionist movements in all of the French West Indies.