The essay "Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question" was written by Thomas Carlyle about the acceptability of using black slaves and indentured servants. It was first published as an article in Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country of London in 1849, and was reprinted as a pamphlet four years later with the title Occasional Discourse on the Nigger Question. The essay was the spark of a debate between Carlyle and John Stuart Mill.
It was in this essay that Carlyle first introduced the phrase "the dismal science" to characterize the field of economics.
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