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School of Thought: Abolition of Slavery

Alexis de Tocqueville, Abolition of Slavery [1840]

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Report made to the Chamber of Deputies on the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, by Alexis de Tocqueville; July 23, 1839. Translated from the French (Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1840).


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The Report on the abolition of slavery by a Commission which included Roger, Tocqueville, de Sade, de Rémusat, Cadeau-d’Arcy, Dugabé, Odilon Barrot, and de Panat. It was submitted to the Chamber of Deputies in July 1839 and conlcuded that “slavery could and should be abolished.”

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