Victor Schoelcher, the main spokesman for a…

Victor Schoelcher, the main spokesman for a group from Paris who work or the abolition of slavery, forms an abolition society in 1834, working especially toward the abolition of slavery on the Caribbean islands.

Born in Paris, Schoelcher, who in his mid-twenties had been sent to visit America, from 1829-1830, visits Mexico, Cuba, and some of the southern states of the U.S.

While on this trip, Schoelcher had learned much about slavery and begun his career as an abolitionist writer.

Schoelcher is also intent on social, economic, and political changes being made in the Caribbean colonies.

He thinks that the production of sugar should continue in the colonies but large central factories should be constructed rather than using slave labor.