Sublime

But there is yet another motive which is more cogent than all the others: the South might indeed, rigorously speaking, abolish slavery; but how should it rid its territory of the black population? Slaves and slavery are driven from the North by the same law, but this twofold result cannot be hoped for in the South.

Malcolm X was a realist

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African was published in 1789

There is a very great difference between the mortality of the blacks and of the whites in the States in which slavery is abolished; from 1820 to 1831 only one out of forty-two individuals of the white population died in Philadelphia; but one negro out of twenty-one individuals of the black population died in the same space of time.

Il n’y a aucun doute : c’est vraiment Saint-Domingue-Haïti qui fait prendre un tournant décisif au mouvement d’indépendance créole. Afin de vaincre la résistance acharnée des troupes espagnoles, Simon Bolivar cherche à obtenir l’appui des ex-esclaves rebelles de l’État caribéen, où il se rend en personne. Le président est alors Alexandre Pétion, qu

Le choix des États-Unis était à la fois original et significatif : il écartait la destination simple et naturelle qu’était l’Angleterre, alors érigée en modèle du libéralisme par Pierre-Paul Royer-Collard, et François Guizot, figures tutélaires de l’Académie française et de la science politique. Tocqueville choisit de s’en détourner au profit d’une

I sat there stunned, grappling with the new information. All that time I was dealing to the donks, I was the prisoner of a cave within a cave. Like the donks, I was unable to escape because I believed I was already free.

“This is the struggle of every person: be free or be a slave.”