Friday, August 15, 2003

David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart, The Secret History of the Dismal Science: Brotherhood, Trade, and the Negro Question: Library of Economics and Liberty

David M. Levy, Sandra J. Peart, The Secret History of the Dismal Science: Brotherhood, Trade, and the Negro Question: Library of Economics and Liberty

Essay on the Mill - Carlyle debate over "Quashee." Include this as a link? Certainly follow up on primary resources:

Selected Footnotes:

2 [Thomas Carlyle] December 1849. "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question." Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country 40, p. 675
3 Mill puts forward what modern scholars know as the Afrocentric hypothesis: "It is curious withal, that the earliest known civilization was, we have the strongest reason to believe, a negro civilization. The original Egyptians are inferred, from the evidence of their sculptures, to have been a negro race: it was from negroes, therefore, that the Greeks learnt their first lessons in civilization; and to the records and traditions of these negroes did the Greek philosophers to the very end of their career resort (I do not say with much fruit) as a treasury of mysterious wisdom." Mill p. 30.
4 [John Stuart Mill] January 1850. "The Negro Question." Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country 41, p. 29. For the case relating to the Irish, see our first column.
5 Adam Smith 1976. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, edited by W. B. Todd. Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 30. Online: Cannan edition.
12 To see how Carlyle was used, check out the wonderful Making of America data set, described and linked at: The Carlyle-Mill "Negro Question" Debate, maintained by the New School's History of Economic Thought website.

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