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Victor Schoelcher (1804 93) was a French writer chiefly remembered
for his part in the fight for the abolition of slavery. In America
on business in 1829 30, he was so appalled by the conditions he
found that he became an abolitionist campaigner, concentrating his
writings on conditions in the French Caribbean islands. He became
President of the French commission for abolition and achieved his
goal when in 1848 the French government abolished slavery in all
its colonies. Schoelcher went into political exile for nearly
twenty years after the coup d'etat of Louis Napoleon, and during
this time he pursued his other great interest, music. His Life of
Handel, translated into English by James Lowe, was published in
1857. It was regarded as one of the finest biographies ever
written, and it was ahead of its time in the amount of research
into primary sources which the author had undertaken.
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And Some Biographical Notices Of The Most Notorious Of Them.
And Some Biographical Notices Of The Most Notorious Of Them.
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