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100 1 _aChancel, A. de
_q(Ausone),
_d1808-1878
245 1 0 _aCham et Japhet, ou De l'émigration des nègres chez les blancs considérée comme moyen providentiel de régénérer la race nègre et de civiliser l'Afrique intérieure.
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2005
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2005-03-24
508 _aProduced by Carlo Traverso, Renald Levesque and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica)
520 _a"Cham et Japhet, ou De l'émigration des nègres chez les blancs considérée comme…." by M. Ausone de Chancel is a complex and polemical treatise written in the mid-19th century. The work examines the themes of race, slavery, and colonization, arguing that the migration of Africans to the Americas was providentially designed to facilitate the moral and civilizational uplift of African peoples through servitude. It engages with philosophical, religious, and societal ideas surrounding slavery and race relations. The opening of the book introduces the perplexing legacy of slavery, contemplates the roles of religion and philosophy, and discusses the political impotence faced by European governments regarding the question of emancipation. It lays out a stark contrast between the hopes of moral regeneration through migration and the realities of oppression. The author draws on historical examples, including the emergence of the Liberian state and the turmoil in Haiti post-emancipation, establishing a platform to argue for the continued importance of the white colonial presence as a means of educating and uplifting the African race. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aBlack race
653 _aAlgeria -- Colonization
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15459
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