Carlyle, Thomas

has biography | a une biographie: Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher (1795-1881). Carlyle's essay 'Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question', first published in 1849 and republished in 1853 with a new title, expounded a defence of slavery on the grounds of racial inferiority. He later led the Eyre Defence and Aid Fund to defend Governor John Eyre's violent repression of the Morant Bay Rebellion in Jamaica in 1865.

Carlyle's thought had a wide-ranging influence both during and after his life. Other nineteenth-century proslavery intellectuals such as George Fitzhugh and John Mitchel, the latter of whom Carlyle met in the mid-1840s, claimed inspiration from his work.
was born | est né: 4 December 1795
died in | est mort par: 5 February 1881
has nationality | a la nationalité: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
has type | est de type: depicted
has association with | a une association avec: Mitchel, John; Mill, John Stuart

is referred to by | est référencé par: Wikipedia - Thomas Carlyle; Wikipedia - 'Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question'; Wikipedia - Morant Bay Rebellion; Art UK; National Portrait Gallery; Brent E. Kinser, 'Fearful Symmetry: Hypocrisy and Bigotry in Thomas Carlyle’s “Occasional Discourse[s] on the Negro Question”', Studies in the Literary Imagination, 45, 1, (2012) 139-165; David Theo Goldberg, 'Liberalism's Limits: Carlyle and Mill on “The Negro Question”', Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 22, 2 (2000) 203-216

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Monument to Thomas Carlyle, Glasgow
Statue of Thomas Carlyle, Ecclefechan
Statue of Thomas Carlyle, Embankment Gardens

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Mill, John Stuart
Mitchel, John