Race

Introduction

A controversial social commentator of the Victorian era, Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) was a Scottish writer and historian. 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 solely due to British ingenuity, dismissing the contribution of imported slaves in building the economy there as negligible.

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