Sonthonax prophesied Africans taking part in French assemblies as early as 1790
Evidence
The next year Sonthonax penned a remarkable prophesy in the newspaper Révolutions de Paris: “Yes, we dare to predict with confidence that the day will come—and the day is not too far off—when you will see a curly-haired African, relying only on his virtue and good sense, coming to participate in the legislative process in the midst of our national assemblies.” — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 487
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- SEED: An angle on prophetic antislavery rhetoric — how Enlightenment republicans imagined Black citizenship before it happened.
Related
- Sonthonax announced emancipation before knowing the Convention had decreed it (similarity 0.78)
- Sonthonax initially defended slavery as necessary to colonial prosperity. (similarity 0.78)