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Baron Humboldt on American Slavery

Jahr

1858

Ort

New York City, New York

Nachweis

in: National Anti-Slavery Standard 19:3/939 (5. Juni 1858), [o. S.].

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.156
Dateiname: 1858-Baron_Humboldt_on-06-neu

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BARON HUMBOLDT ON AMERICAN SLAVERY.

A PRIVATE LETTER TO MR. JULIUS FROEBEL.Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent.

Accept, my dear Froebel, if only in a few lines, mymost cordial thanks for your kind letter and for the giftof an able work on your personal experience in America,in which you have submitted all classes of society to sucha sagacious comparison. You are here warmly cherishedin the memory of all who are acquainted with your dis-tinguished scientific attainments, the nobleness of yourcharacter, and the peculiar features of your mind. I haveboasted of your enduring friendship with me in the newvolume of Kosmos, p. 541. I closed this volume just as Ireceived the first part of your travels and researches, whichhad already often been described to me by friends, andespecially by Varnhagen von Ense. I trust I shall notlose your favor on account of my differing from you inregard to the connection between the North Mexicanhighlands and the Rocky Mountains. Our controversy,as you will find when you read attentively (pp. 431-440),is almost entirely one of words. I make a distinctionbetween a broad, continuous elevation, and the discon-nected chain rising above it, often steeply and like battle-ments. The word mountain is very indefinite. In spiteof my heretical disposition, however, your ninth chapter(pp. 504-518) gives me a great deal of instruction. Youhave explained many points which were only hinted at inthe “Remarks” (Contributions to Phys. Geog., Smithson.Inst). But there are other things which come nearer myheart than those elevations. Your next volume on thepolitical future of America, would I, almost the originalAdam, gladly live to see. Continue to brand the shame-ful devotion to slavery, the treacherous importation ofnegroes, under the pretence of their becoming free—ameans to stimulate the hunting of negroes in the interiorof Africa. What atrocities have been witnessed by onewho has had the misfortune to live from 1789 to 1858.My book against slavery (Political Essay on the Islandof Cuba) is not prohibited in Madrid, but cannot be pur-chased in the United States, which you call “The Repub-lic of distinguished people,” except with the omission ofeverything that relates to the sufferings of our coloredfellow-men, who, according to my political views, areentitled to the enjoyment of the same freedom with our-selves. Add to this, the anathema on other races ofmen, forgetting that the most ancient cultivation ofhumanity, before that of the white Hellenic race in Assy-ria, in Babylon, in the valley of the Nile, in Iran, inChina, was the work of colored men, though not woolly-haired. I still work hard, mostly in the night, because I amunmercifully tormented with a constantly increasing cor-respondence, for the most part of not the slightest inte-rest. I live joyless in my 89th year, because of the muchfor which I have ardently striven from my early youthso little has been accomplished. With renewed expressions of the friendship of manyyears, which political events have never troubled, I am ever your illegible

Al. Humboldt.

Berlin, January 11, 1858.

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