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Baron Humboldt on American Slavery

Jahr

1858

Ort

Dubuque, Iowa

Nachweis

in: The Dubuque Daily Times 2:9 (23. Juni 1858), [o. S.].

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.156
Dateiname: 1858-Baron_Humboldt_on-13-neu

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Zeichenanzahl:	3145

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	Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent (New York City, New York, 1858, Englisch)
	Baron Humboldt (Wheeling, West Virginia, 1858, Englisch)
	Baron Humboldt on American Slavery (Sandusky, Ohio, 1858, Englisch)
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	Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Julius Froebel. Communicated to the Tribune with Humboldt’s consent (Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, 1858, Englisch)
	Baron Humboldt on American Slavery (New York City, New York, 1858, Englisch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Indianapolis, Indiana, 1858, Englisch)
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	Humboldt on Slavery (Buffalo, New York, 1858, Englisch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Leipzig, 1858, Deutsch)
	Baron Humboldt on American Slavery (Dubuque, Iowa, 1858, Englisch)
	Ein Brief Humboldts (Wien, 1858, Deutsch)
	Briefwechsel Alexander v. Humbold’s mit Julius Fröbel (Berlin, 1858, Deutsch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Köln, 1858, Deutsch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Augsburg, 1858, Deutsch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Glasgow, Missouri, 1858, Englisch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Würzburg, 1858, Deutsch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Ljubljana, 1858, Deutsch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Zürich, 1858, Deutsch)
	Ein Brief Humboldt’s (Olmütz, 1858, Deutsch)
	Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to J. Froebel (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1858, Englisch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Bremen, 1858, Deutsch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Timisoara, 1858, Deutsch)
	Humboldt and American Slavery (London, 1858, Englisch)
	Humboldt and American Slavery (London, 1858, Englisch)
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	Humboldt and American Slavery (Belfast, 1858, Englisch)
	[Baron Humboldt on American Slavery. A Private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel. Communicated to The Tribune with Humboldt’s consent] (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1858, Englisch)
	Humboldt and American Slavery (London, 1858, Englisch)
	Humboldt and American Slavery (Reading, 1858, Englisch)
	Humboldt and American Slavery (Edinburgh, 1858, Englisch)
	Humboldt and American Slavery (Aberdeen, 1858, Englisch)
	Humboldt and American Slavery (Belfast, 1858, Englisch)
	Humboldt and American Slavery (London, 1858, Englisch)
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	Humboldt and American Slavery (Hillsborough, Ohio, 1858, Englisch)
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Baron Humboldt on American Slavery.[A private Letter to Mr. Julius Froebel.]

Accept, my dear Froebel, if only a few lines,my most cordial thanks for your kind letterand for the gift of an able work on your per-sonal experiences in America, in which youhave submitted all classes of society to such asagacious comparison. You are here warmlycherished in the memory of all who are ac-quainted with your distinguished scientificattainments, the nobleness of your character,and the peculiar features of your mind. Ihave boasted of your enduring friendship withme in the new volume of Kosmos, p. 541. Iclosed this volume just as I received the firstpart of your travels and researches, whichhad already often been directed to me byfriends, and especially by Varnhagen vonEnse. I trust I shall not lose your favor onaccount of my differing from you in regardto the connexion between North Mexicanhighlands and the Rocky Mountains. Ourcontroversy, as you will find when you readattentively, (pp. 431—440,) is almost entirelyone of words. I make a distinction betweena broad and continuous elevation, and the dis-connected chain rising above it, often steeplyand like battlements. The word mountainis very indefinite. In spite of my hereticaldisposition, however, your ninth chapter,(pp. 504—513), gives me a great deal of in-struction. You have explained many pointswhich were only hinted at in the “Remarks”(Contributions to Phys. Geog., Smithson,Inst.) But there are other things which comenearer my heart than those elevations. Yournext volume on the political future of Ame-rica, would I, almost the original Adam,gladly live to see. Continue to brand theshameful devotion to slavery, the treacherousimportation of negroes, under the pretence of|Spaltenumbruch|their becoming free—a means to stimulatethe hunting of negroes in the interior of Af-rica. What atrocities have been witnessedby one who has the misfortune to live from1789 to 1858! My book against slavery (Po-litical Essay on the Island of Cuba) is notprohibited in Madrid, but cannot be purchas-ed in the United States, which you call “therepublic of distinguished people,” except withthe omission of everything that relates to thesufferings of our colored fellow-men, who, according to my political views, areentitled to the enjoyment of the same freedomwith ourselves. Add to this, the anathemaon other races of men, forgetting that themost ancient cultivation of humanity, beforethat of the white Hellenic race, in Assyria, inBabylon, in the valley of the Nile, in Iran,in China, was the work of colored men, tho’not woolly haired. I still work hard, mostly in the night, be-cause I am unmercifully tormented with aconstantly increasing correspondence, for themost part, of not the slightest interest. I livejoyless in my 89th year, because of the muchfor which I have ardently striven from myearly youth, so little has been accomplished With renewed expressions of the friendshipof many years, which political events havenever troubled,

I am ever your illegible,Al. Humboldt.

Berlin, Jan. 11, ’58.

[N. Y. Tribune.

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