“Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.” YearsStillsMomentsSeemsBlackWhiteCommonMoralPositionEnlightenmentSlaveryCurseFallenPhrasesTreatment Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.” WorldWayMoralStepsGonePathTreeRootsDown AndForestsLionsNew WorldPioneersOld Trees Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer
