Abstract
The African recently arrived from his homeland must preserve memories of it very much alive, and... will more than ever be predisposed to suffer from nostalgia. And so, in these particularly exceptional circumstances, it is a mistake, a mistake of calculation, and of interest, not to treat him in a homely fashion and with favor, to burden him with heavy labor, and to exercise upon him the same severity as is proper for old slaves. From such a mistake can a comparison between the time of liberty and captivity be born, between the past of the homeland, the present of the foreign land and the continuous future of slavery, which, in not a few cases, will be fatal to the interests of the master, and to the life of the slave.
