Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question
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The essay "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" was written by Thomas Carlyle about the acceptability of using negro slaves (the so-called "Negro Question") and possible indentured servitude. It was first published as an article in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in 1849, and was reprinted, 4 years later, in a pamphlet renamed using the word "nigger" in 1853, as Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question. The essay was the spark of the 1850 Carlyle-Mill Negro Question Debate, between Carlyle and John Stewart Mill.
The full phrase "dismal science" first occurs in Carlyle's 1849 tract entitled Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, in which he was arguing for the reintroduction of slavery as a means to regulate the labor market in the West Indies.
