Company of the friends of the Blacks

The Société of the friends of the Blacks is an association created the February 19th 1788 the purpose of which was the immediate abolition of the Esclavage. This association was directed by Jacques Pierre Brissot and was chaired by Etienne Clavière.

In 1789, this company counts 141 members, of which personalities such as Condorcet, Fayette, Etienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne, the abbot Henri Gregoire, the duke Dominique of Rochefoucauld, Olympe de Gouges, Louis Monneron, Leger-Happiness Sonthonax and Jerome Pétion of Villeneuve.

Between 1789 and 1793, the Company of the Friends of the Blacks publishes in the newspapers the Patriote French , the Analysis of English papers , the Mail of Provence , the Chronicle of Paris .

Worried by the ideology, it did not have effectiveness practices and met the disapproval of other companies abolitionists.

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Society off the Friends off Blacks, " Address to the National Assembly in Favor off the Abolition off the Slavic Trade" (5 February 1790)
Several works are available on the site Gallica of the National library of France of which:

Company of the Friends of the Blacks (France). Addresses to the National Assembly, for the abolition of the draft of the Blacks, February 1790
Société of the Friends of the Blacks (France). Addresses Company of the Friends of the Blacks, with the National Assembly, all the cities, Paris, March 1791
Société of the Friends of the Blacks (France). The Company of the Friends of the Blacks with Arthur Dillon, deputy of Martinique to the Parliament, March, 1791

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