Status Updates From Democracy In America

have to read sections of this for a summer academy so it’s on hold to come back to

“Slavery, as we will explain later, dishonors work; it introduces idleness into society, and with it ignorance and arrogance, misery and luxury. It enervates the forces of the intellect and deadens human activity. The influence of slavery, joined to the English character, explains the mores and the social state of the South.”

god damn man he not only says that slavery is morally wrong he’s spittin facts

he just described the outline of america in ten pages in intricate detail. what a simp

basically this french man comes to america (in the 1830s) and says that america is better because of the “equality of conditions” and how europe is picking up on those ideas