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L’Évolution d’un État philanthropique
René Claparède. Geneva : Édition Atar. 1909. Reproduction
Bibliothèque de Genève, BGE Gi 508

Bulletin des amis des esclaves
Geneva: Swiss Charitable Organization for African Slaves. September 1896,
no  11. Reproduction.
Bibliothèque de Genève, BGE E 1866 (2)

Bulletin de la Société anti-esclavagiste suisse
Geneva: Swiss Anti-Slavery Society. March 1890, no 4. Reproduction
Bibliothèque de Genève, BGE E 1866 (3)

Les Noirs affranchis et l’appel qu’ils nous adressent : exposé historique
Genevan Committee for the Support of Freed Slaves. Geneva: Ramboz and Schuchardt. 1865. Reproduction.
Bibliothèque de Genève, BGE Gf 3460/28/15

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19th century industrial Europe no longer needed slave labour, replaced by paid workers. The great powers, formerly pro-slavery, therefore banned Atlantic trafficking and slavery in the Americas. Abolitionists then turned their eyes to Africa, where Arab trafficking existed. The aim to abolish slavery everywhere very often underpinned support for colonization, claimed to be the only way to achieve this. Geneva was particularly active in this sphere. F. Rossinelli

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