Race

Introduction

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish writer, essayist, historian, teacher and controversial social commentator of the Victorian era. In his essay, Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, Carlyle defended slavery on the grounds of racial inferiority and claimed that the West Indies’ development was due to British ingenuity alone, dismissing the contribution of imported slaves in building the economy there as nugatory.

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