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Baron Humboldt on American Slavery

Jahr

1858

Ort

London

Nachweis

in: The Anti-Slavery Reporter 6:7 (2. August 1858), S. 192.

Sprache

Englisch

Typografischer Befund

Antiqua; Spaltensatz; Auszeichnung: Kursivierung, Kapitälchen.

Identifikation

Textnummer Druckausgabe: VII.156
Dateiname: 1858-Baron_Humboldt_on-39-neu

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BARON HUMBOLDT ON AMERICANSLAVERY.

The following highly-interesting extract istaken from a recent number of the New-York Tribune. It is from a private letter,addressed by the venerable philosopher to hisfriend, Mr. Julius Froebel, an author ofdistinction. The Baron’s testimony againstSlavery adds one more to “the host ofwitnesses” who have raised their voice incondemnation of this iniquity. The editorof the Tribune publishes it with the Baron’sconsent. “Accept, my dear Froebel, if only in a fewlines, my most cordial thanks for your kind letterand for the gift of an able work on your personalexperience in America, in which you have sub- |Spaltenumbruch| mitted all classes of society to such a sagaciouscomparison. You are here warmly cherishedin the memory of all who are acquainted withyour distinguished scientific attainments, thenobleness of your character, and the peculiarfeatures of your mind. I have boasted of yourenduring friendship with me in the new volumeof Kosmos, p. 541. I closed this volume just asI received the first part of your travels andresearches, which had already often been describedto me by friends, and especially by Varnhagenvon Ense. I trust I shall not lose your favouron account of my differing from you in regard tothe connection between the North Mexican high-lands and the Rocky Mountains. Our con-troversy, as you will find when you readattentively (pp. 431—440), is almost entirely oneof words. I make a distinction between a broad,continuous elevation, and the disconnected chainrising above it, often steeply and like battlements.The word mountain is very indefinite. In spiteof my heretical disposition, however, your ninthchapter (pp. 504—518) gives me a great deal ofinstruction. You have explained many pointswhich were only hinted at in the “Remarks”(Contributions to Phys. Geog., Smithson. Inst.)But there are other things which come nearermy heart than those elevations. Your nextvolume on the political future of America wouldI, almost the original Adam, gladly live to see.Continue to brand the shameful devotion toslavery, the treacherous importation of negroes,under the pretence of their becoming free—ameans to stimulate the hunting of negroes in theinterior of Africa. What atrocities have beenwitnessed by one who has had the misfortune tolive from 1789 to 1858. My book against Slavery(Political Essay on the Island of Cuba) is notprohibited in Madrid, but cannot be purchased inthe United States, which you call „The Repub-lic of distinguished people,” except with theomission of every thing that relates to the suffer-ings of our coloured fellow-men, who, accordingto my political views, are entitled to the enjoy-ment of the same freedom with ourselves. Addto this, the anathema on other races of men,forgetting that the most ancient cultivation ofhumanity, before that of the white Hellenic racein Assyria, in Babylon, in the valley of the Nile,in Iran, in China, was the work of coloured men,though not woolly-haired. “I still work hard, mostly in the night,because 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 much forwhich I have ardently striven from my earlyyouth so little has been accomplished. “With renewed expressions of the friendshipof many years, which political events have nevertroubled, I am ever your illegible

Al. Humboldt.

Berlin, January 11, 1858.

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