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Sophie Doin
French novelist and essayist · France · On the map · Writers · Lived 1800 to 1846 · aged 46
Sophie Doin, was a French novelist and essayist whose writings contributed to the renewal of abolitionism in France during the 1820s. She targeted abuses in the French colonies, most notably Guadeloupe and Martinique, where slavery continued for decades after the declaration of Haitian independence in 1804.
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In her various antislavery writings, notably the novel La Famille noire, ou la Traite de l’esclavage, she drew the French public's attention to the injustices committed by the slave system. She called for a more humane treatment of Blacks, for the abolition of the slave trade, and for religious and practical education that would prepare slaves for eventual emancipation.
