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In September 1890, just weeks after La Fraternité began printing, an anti-slavery Congress took place in Paris. La Fraternité covered this event extensively. Below, you can follow through this coverage.
In the very first article of the first issue, Benito Sylvain refers to the anti-slavery campaign that Cardinal Lavigerie launched not long before, but he laments that the related progress against European racism, "is nearly destroyed by the odious and incessant campaign that is being carried out against us by a few irreducible minds, aristocrats of the skin, who, in their brains stuffed with prejudices, still have ideas worthy of the Middle Ages and of the feudal era."