The “Speech on the Abolition of the Slave Trade” was a pamphlet, addressed to the National Assembly, in the year 11 August 1789 and created and written by a group called “The Society of Friends of Blacks”. The group was made up of French citizens living in France during the French Revolution, in Paris, France. The main reason for the creation of the pamphlet was to address the National Assembly, on the abolition of the slave trade. The pamphlet was written, by each member of the society, under the direction of the creator of the group called Jacques-Pierre Brissot and consisted of a decree or petition to abolish only the slave trade, but not to abolish slavery altogether in France. The founder and leader of the “Society of Friends of Blacks” was Jacques-PierreBrissot, who was a philosopher, legislator, and writer in the 1700s in Paris, France. “The society of the Friends of the Blacks consisted of exactly 141 French members, some philosophers and others nobles. What they all had in common was that they believed in the same cause to abolish the slave trade. The company was created in the year 1788, in Paris France, the idea was adopted from the same similar beliefs. When Jacques-Pierre Brissot went to the United States, and in Philadelphia he met Thomas Jefferson, and participated in the "Constitutional Convention of Philadelphia", during this conference Jacques-Pierre Brissot became interested and committed. Subsequently Jacques-Pierre Brissot went to England where he met Thomas Clarkson, also an abolitionist and true creator and supporter of the "Society of Friends of Blacks". During the visit, Jacques-P...... in the center of the sheet......them”. Finally in 1794, on February 4, the Convention of the First French Republic abolished slavery in all the French colonies. Then in 1802 Napoleon restored slavery, making slave ownership legal again, in the French colonies. Later, in the year 1848, slavery was declared illegal indefinitely in every French colony. Works Cited Bibliography "The Social Contract" written by Jean Jacques Rousseau, published in the year 1762. "The French Atlantic Triangle: Literature and Culture of the Slave Trade" " written by Christopher L. Miller published in the year 11 January 2008 by Duke University Press. “Brissot de Warville: A Study in the History of the French Revolution” written by Eloise Ellery, published in the year 1915 by the Houghton Mifflin Company.