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“THE INSANITY OF FREEDOM It happened in Washington in 1840. A government census measured dementia among blacks in the United States. According to the census, there were nine times as many cases among free blacks as among slaves. The North was a vast insane asylum, and the farther north one went the…” quote by Eduardo Galeano
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““THE INSANITY OF FREEDOM It happened in Washington in 1840. A government census measured dementia among blacks in the United States. According to the census, there were nine times as many cases among free blacks as among slaves. The North was a vast insane asylum, and the farther north one went the worse it got. Going from north to south, however, one went from lunacy to sanity. Among the slaves who””

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