"Unter allen europäischen Regierungen war Dänemark die erste, und lange Zeit die einzige, welche den Sklavenhandel abschaffte, und doch waren die ersten Sklaven, die wir zum Verkauf ausbieten sahen, auf einem dänischen Negerschiff gekommen. Nichts hemmt die Speculationen eines niedern Interesse's, das mit den Pflichten der Menschlichkeit, der National-Ehre und den Gesetzen des Vaterlands im Streit ist."
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über Sklavenhandel in Cumaná während Humboldts dortigen Aufenthalts 1799/1800. Dänemark hatte 1792 den Sklavenhandel über den Atlantik mit Wirkung ab dem 1. Januar 1803 verboten. Reise in die Aequinoctial-Gegenden des neuen Continents in den Jahren 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, 1805 und 1804. Verfasst von Alexander von Humboldt und A. Bonplandt. Erster Theil. Stuttgart und Tübingen J.G. Cotta 1815, Buch II, Kapitel V, S. 508 books.google.
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Alexander von Humboldt
1769 – 1859
deutscher Naturwissenschaftler, Ethnologe und Geograph, Bruder von [[Wilhelm von Humboldt]]
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