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De l'état des nègres : relativement à la properité des colonies françaises, & de leur métropole ; discours aux représentans de la nation

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Title De l'état des nègres : relativement à la properité des colonies françaises, & de leur métropole ; discours aux représentans de la nation

Publisher s.n.

Date 1789

Place France

Language French

Subjects Blacks

Extent 24 p. ; 18 cm

Format Pamphlets

User-Contributed Translation enemy incursions, & they would no longer be secured by one million armed men, a fact which men of war will be convinced simply by taking a geographic glimpse of our long & vast Coasts.

And we would also most likely see, Gentlemen, a rebirth of those miserable times under the Monarchy, when people from the North would constantly bring ravage, fire, & murder to all parts of France, despite the efforts and indestructible courage of its inhabitants.

See, Gentlemen, this is what inevitably awaits France, if the excesses of unintelligible metaphysics & exaggerated consequences (derived from unclear principles whose development is to make famous certain ambitious & corrupt writers who relish in the bloody events of revolutions) were to cause the Representatives of the French Nation to allow themselves to speak unfavorably about the Colonies concerning this insidious, deceitful, & criminal issue, which some dare present to you today.

However, Gentlemen, if so many considerations did not yet stop You from declaring the loss of the Colonies; if you were able to persuade Yourselves, having no possessions abroad, that You would rid yourself of any reason for war with England, & would no longer need a Navy so costly during war time;

If it were possible finally, Gentlemen, that based on all these motives, You believed, in good faith, that it would be more advantageous for France to leave its Colonies to their own demise; if, having lost all affection & any interest for the well-being of one hundred thousand Frenchmen spread across your overseas

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