Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1789-1790.

Format:

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Mirabeau, Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti, comte de, 1749-1791, author.

Contributor:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Slave trade--France--18th century.

Slave trade.

Slavery--France--18th century.

Slavery.

France.

Genre:

essays

Manuscripts, French -- 18th century.

Manuscripts, European.

Penn Provenance:

Purchased, 1958.

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves)

Contained In:

Miscellaneous Manuscripts. Box 13 Folder 7

Place of Publication:

1789-1790.

Language Note:

In French.

Biography/History:

French politician and orator who was a popular member of the National Assembly but a supporter of constitutional monarchy.

Summary:

Fragment of Mirabeau's Discours sur l'abolition de la traite des Noirs (leaves numbered 24 and 25), in the hand of a copyist with corrections probably in the hand of Mirabeau.

Notes:

An edition of the complete text, edited by Marcel Dorigny, was published under the title Les Bières flottantes des négriers: un discours non prononcé sur l'abolition de la traite des noirs (Université de Saint-Étienne, 1999).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 59 (Ms. French 31).

OCLC:

82709969