Alexis de Tocqueville:

The Negroes who inhabit the United States, are in some measure strangers to the country which gave them birth; they are the children of slavery, and not of society. Therefore, they have no place amongst the European population, who have been born under the blessings of liberty and equality.

— Alexis de Tocqueville Modern

Democracy in America

Context

'Democracy in America', Volume I, Chapter XVIII

Date / Period

1835

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/816/816-h/816-h.htm

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