Captain Pamphile or ''The Adventures of Captain Pamphile'' (French: ''Le Capitaine Pamphile'') is an 1839 French
adventure novel
Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of romance fiction.
History
In the Introduction to the ''Encycloped ...
by
Alexandre Dumas.
[Dorigny p.270] It was aimed at children and had a strong
anti-slavery
Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery. In Western Europe and the Americas, abolitionism was a historic movement that sought to end the Atlantic slave trade and liberate the enslaved people.
The Britis ...
message. It was translated into English in 1850.
References
Bibliography
* Marcel Dorigny. ''The Abolitions of Slavery: From Lʹeger Fʹelcitʹe Sonthonax to Victor Schoelcher, 1793, 1794, 1848''. Berghahn Books, 2003.
1839 French novels
Novels by Alexandre Dumas
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