 First separate edition, privately printed | |
| Author | Thomas Carlyle |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Fraser's Magazine |
Publication date | December 1849 |
| Publication place | England |
| Media type | Pamphlet |
"Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" is an essay by the Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle. It was first published anonymously in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in December 1849,[1] and was revised and reprinted in 1853 as a pamphlet entitled "Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question".[2] The essay was the spark of a debate between Carlyle and John Stuart Mill.[3] It was in this essay that Carlyle first introduced the phrase "the dismal science" to characterize the field of economics.[4]
- ^ Carlyle, Thomas (1849). "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question", Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, Vol. XL, pp. 670–679.
- ^ Carlyle, Thomas (1853). Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question. London: Thomas Bosworth.
- ^ Goldberg, David Theo (2008). "Liberalism's Limits: Carlyle and Mill on "the Negro Question'," Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Vol. XX, No. 2, pp. 203–216.
- ^ Carlyle (1849), p. 672.