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Alexander von Humboldt: „Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Julius Froebel. Communicated to the Tribune with Humboldt’s consent“, in: ders., Sämtliche Schriften digital, herausgegeben von Oliver Lubrich und Thomas Nehrlich, Universität Bern 2021. URL: <https://humboldt.unibe.ch/text/1858-Baron_Humboldt_on-05-neu> [abgerufen am 19.04.2024].
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| Titel | Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Julius Froebel. Communicated to the Tribune with Humboldt’s consent | ||||
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| Jahr | 1858 | ||||
| Ort | Lewisburg, Pennsylvania | ||||
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Nachweis in: Lewisburg Chronicle 738 (4. Juni 1858), [o. S.].
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| Sprache | Englisch | ||||
| Typografischer Befund | Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung; Schmuck: Absatzmarken. | ||||
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But there are
other things which come nearer my heart
than those elevations. Your next volume
on the political future of America, would
I, almost the original Adam, gladly live
to see. Continue to brand the shameful
devotion to Slavery, the treacherous im-
portation of negroes, under the pretense
of their becoming free—a means to stimu-
late the hunting of negroes in the interior
of Africa. What atrocities have been
witnessed by one who has had the misfor-
tune to live from 1789 to 1858! My
book against Slavery (Political Essay on
the Island of Cuba) is not prohibited in
Madrid, but can not be purchased in the
United States, which you call “The Re-
public of distinguished people,” except
with the omission of everything that re-
lates to the sufferings of our colored fel-
low-men, who, according to my political
views, are entitled to the enjoyment of
the same freedom with ourselves. Add
to this, the anathema on other races of
men, forgetting that the most ancient cul-
tivation of humanity, before that of the
white Hellenic race in Assyria, in Baby-
lon, in the valley of the Nile, in Iran, in
China, was the work of colored men,
though not wooly haired.
I still work hard, mostly in the night,
because I am unmercifully tormented with
a constantly increasing correspondence,
for the most part, of not the slightest in-
terest. I live joyless in my 89th year,
because, of the much for which I have ar-
dently striven from my early youth, so lit-
tle has been accomplished.
With renewed expression of the friend-
ship of many years, which political events
have never troubled,
I am ever your illegible
Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Julius Probell. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent.
Berlin, Jan. 11. AL HUMBOLDT.