Société des Amis des Noirs

Paris Société des amis des noirs (viaf) Society of the Friends of the Blacks (wikidata) political organisation

Contributions

1. Adresse de la Société des Amis des Noirs, à l'Assemblée nationale, à toutes les villes de commerce, à toutes les manufactures, aux colonies, à toutes les sociétés des amis de la Constitution: adresse dans laquelle on approfondit les relations politiques et commerciales entre la métropole et les colonies has translation author

Members

• Antoine-Gilbert Griffet de Labaume abolitionist bookseller civil servant journalist playwright poet publisher translator writer
• Carl-Bernhard Wadström abolitionist traveller writer
• Charles-Michel Trudaine de la Sablière translator
• De Gramagnac abolitionist physician translator
• Etienne Clavière abolitionist entrepreneur journalist politician
• François-Xavier Lanthenas abolitionist physician politician translator writer
• Gaspard-Joseph Cuchet bookseller editor publisher
• Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette military politician
• Henri Agasse publisher
• Henri Grégoire civil servant cleric politician writer
• Honoré-Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau abolitionist pamphleteer politician translator writer
• Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville abolitionist bookseller entrepreneur pamphleteer politician publisher translator writer
• Jean-Antoine Gallois civil servant freemason poet politician translator
• Jean-Louis Carra journalist philosopher politician revolutionary scientist writer
• Jean-Yrieix de Beaupoil de Saint-Aulaire military
• Louis-Philippe-Joseph, duc d'Orléans freemason military politician
• Maximilien Robespierre jurist politician revolutionary
• Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet abolitionist journalist philosopher politician scientist writer
• Scipione Piattoli abolitionist cleric freemason politician professor writer
• Thomas Clarkson abolitionist writer

Notes

Jacques Brissot founded the Society of the Friends of Blacks in 1788 to agitate against the slave trade and slavery. He modeled it on the London Committee for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, established in 1787. He hoped that the two groups might cooperate in an international effort to eliminate the slave trade. The French society, knowing that the colonial and commercial interests invested in slavery still exercised great power, cautiously advanced its proposals. This caution was well–founded, since some deputies faced personal attacks in the streets of Paris for their unpopular views. As the roster shows, its membership included leading intellectuals, politicians, and many aristocrats. The marquis de Condorcet was its president and M. de Gramagnac its secretary. It remained active until 1793, when it had over 140 members. The founding list can be found in Brissot, 'Tableau des Membres de la Société des Amis des Noirs' (1789), pp.1–8. https://revolution.chnm.org/d/339. It included the three Lameth brothers, two publishers, Agasse and Cuchet, one Englishman, "Pigot, Geneva" (Charles Pigott's brother, Robert) and one associated foreigner, Piattoli. While Jefferson could not attend for political reasons, his secretary, William Short, did attend. See also Claude Perroud, 'La Société Française des Amis des Noirs', in La Révolution Française no.69 (1916), pp.122–47.