[Non-Sequitur]

Furthermore, we can read what De toqueville wrote (circa 1830) about how the Northeast despised blacks more than any other region, noting that the primary reason of the abolition of slavery there was not economics, but to "rid the region of the stink of the black man".

Here is a link to de Tocqueville's Democracy in America . The chapter on race relations is actually Volume I, Chapter 18 and that quote is nowhere to be seen, but on the off-chance I missed it elsewhere in the book perhaps you would be so kind to tell us where to locate the 'stink of the black man' quote? I suspect that de Tocqueville said nothing of the sort, and you're just regaling us with your creative imagination again but feel free to show me wrong.

[M. Espinola]