Black Africa

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“Lo, thus, as prostrate, ‘In the dust I write
My heart’s deep languor and my soul’s sad tears.’
Yet why evoke the spectres of black night
To blot the sunshine of exultant years?”
—James Thomson (1834–1882)

“America is not civil, whilst Africa is barbarous.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)