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Baron Von Humboldt on Slavery in the United States and in Cuba

Jahr

1856

Ort

Buffalo, New York

Nachweis

in: Buffalo Daily Republic 10:4913 (13. August 1856), [o. S.].

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.108
Dateiname: 1856-Insel_Cuba-16-neu

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Seitenanzahl:	1
Zeichenanzahl:	3046

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Baron Von Humboldt on Slavery in the United States and in Cuba.

[Correspondence of the London Times.] Baron von Humboldt has caused the follow- ing article to be inserted in the Spenersche Zei- tung : Under the title of Essai Politique sur l’Isle de Cuba, published in Paris in 1826, I collected together all the large edition of my Voyage aux Regions Equinoxiales du Nouveau Continent con- tained upon the state of agriculture and salvery in the Antilles. There appeared at the same time an English and a Spanish translation of this work, the letter entitled Ensayo Politico so- bre la Isla de Cuba, neither of which omitted any of the frank and open remarks which feelings of humanity had inspired. But there appears just now, strangely enough, translated from the Spa- nish translation, and not from the French origi- nal, and published by Derby & Jackson, in New York, an octavo volume of 400 pages un- der the title of The Island of Cuba, by Alexan- der Humboldt; with notes and a preliminary essay by J. S. Thrasher. The translator, who has lived a long time on that beautiful island, has enriched my work by more recent data on the subject of the numerical standing of the population, of the cultivation of the soil, and the state of trade, and, generally speaking, ex- hibited a charitable moderation in his discus- sion of conflicting opinions. I owe it, however, to a moral feeling, that is now as lively in me as it was in 1826, publicly to complain that in a work which bears my name the entire seventh chapter of the Spanish translation, with which my essai politique ended, has been arbitrarily omitted. To this very por- tion of my work I attach greater importance than to any astronomical observations, experi- ments of magnetic intensity, or statistical state- ments. “I have examined with frankness (I here repeat the words I used thirty years ago) whatever concerns the organization of human society in the colonies, the unequal distribution of the rights and enjoyments of life, and the impending dangers which the wiscom of legis- lators and the moderation of freemen can avert, whatever may be the form of government. “It is the duty of the traveler who has been an eye-witness of all that torments and de- grades human nature to cause the complaints of the unfortunate to reach those whose duty it is to relieve them. I have repeated in this treat- ise the fact that the ancient legislation of Spain on the subject of slavery is less inhuman and atrocious than that of the slave states on the American continent, north or south of the equa- tor. A steady advocate, as I am, for the most un- fettered expression of opinion in speech or in writing, I should never have thought of com- plaining if I had not been attacked on account of my statements; but I do think I am entitled to demand that in the free states of the conti- nent of America people should be allowed to read what has been permitted to circulate from the first year of its appearance in a Spanish translation.

Alexander von Humboldt.

Berlin, July, 1856.

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