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Alexander von Humboldt: „Baron Humboldt on American Slavery“, 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-09-neu> [abgerufen am 29.03.2024].

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Titel Baron Humboldt on American Slavery
Jahr 1858
Ort Salem, Ohio
Nachweis
in: The Anti-Slavery Bugle 13:42/662 (12. Juni 1858), [o. S.].
Sprache Englisch
Typografischer Befund Antiqua; Spaltensatz.
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Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.156
Dateiname: 1858-Baron_Humboldt_on-09-neu
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BARON HUMBOLDT ON AMERICAN SLA-VERY. [A private letter to Mr. Julius Froebel.]

Accept, my dear Froebel, if only in a few lines, mymost cordial thanks for your kind letter and forthe gift of an able work on your personal experi-ence in America, in which you have submittedall classes of society to such a sagacious compari-son. You are here warmly cherished in the me-mory of all who are acquainted with your dis-tinguished scientific attainments, the noblenessof your character, and the peculiar features of yourmind. I have boasted of your enduring friendshipwith me in the new volume of Kosmos, p. 541. Iclosed this volume just as I received the first partof your travels and researches, which had alreadyoften been described to me by friends, and espe-cially by Varnhagen von Ense. I trust I shall notlose your favor on account of my differing fromyou in regard to the connection between the NorthMexican highlands and the Rocky Mountains.—Our controversy, as you will find when you readattentively, pp. 431440, is almost entirely one ofwords. I make a distinction between a broad andcontinuous elevation, and the disconnected chainraising above it, often steeply and like battlements.The word mountain is very indefinite. In spite ofmy heretical disposition, however, your 9th chap-ter, pp. 504518, gives me a great deal of in-struction. You have explained many points whichwere only hinted at in the “Remarks” (Contribu-tions to Phys. Geog., Smithson. Inst). But thereare other things which come nearer my heart thanthose elevations. Your next volume on the politi-cal future of America, would I, almost the originalAdam, gladly live to see. Continue to brand theshameful devotion to slavery, the treacherous im-portation of negroes, under the pretence of theirbecoming free, a means to stimulate the hunting ofnegroes in the interior of Africa. What atroci-ties have been witnessed by one who has had themisfortune to live from 1789 to 1858. My bookagainst slavery (Political Essay on the Island ofCuba) is not prohibited in Madrid, but cannotbe purchased in the United States, which youcall “The Republic of distinguished people,” ex-cept with the omission of everything that relatesto the sufferings of our colored fellow-men, who,according to my political views, are entitled tothe enjoyment of the same freedom with ourselves.Add to this, the anathema on other races of men,forgetting that the most ancient cultivation ofhumanity, before that of the white Hellenic race,in Assyria, in Babylon, in the valley of the Nile,|Spaltenumbruch|in Iran, in China, was the work of colored men,though not woolly haired. I still work hard, mostly in the night, becauseI am unmercifully tormented with a constantly in-creasing correspondence, for the most part of notthe slightest interest. I live joyless in my 89thyear, because of the much for which I have ar-dently striven from my early youth so little hasbeen accomplished. With renewed expressions of the friendship ofmany years, which political events have nevertroubled, I am ever your illegible

AL. HUMBOLDT.