[LE MONNIER (l'abbé Guillaume-Antoine)] Discours d'un nègre marron, Qui a été re…
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[LE MONNIER (l'abbé Guillaume-Antoine)]

Discours d'un nègre marron, Qui a été repris, & qui va subir le dernier supplice. S.l.n.d. [1777]. Plaquette in-8 of 8 pages, the last unencrypted page containing a list of the author's other works, bradel orange half calf, smooth spine with gilt title throughout (Modern binding). Vibrant plea against slavery, detached from Fêtes des bonnes-gens de Canon and Rosières de Briquebec (1777) by the same author. An account of an escaped slave, recaptured and then condemned, through which the author attempts to incite whites to humanity towards blacks: White-skinned men, atrocious men [...] May they [the race of blacks] learn that all men are brothers!

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[LE MONNIER (l'abbé Guillaume-Antoine)]

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