Three Odes in G#

Abstract

Red slaves (native-Americans) are used only for domestic work in Surinam because they are too weak to work in the fields. Negroes are thus needed for fieldwork. The difficulties in this case are not the result of a lack of coercive measures, but the natives in this part of the world lack ability and durability. —Immanuel Kant, “Von der verschiedenen Racen der Menschen” [“Of the Different Human Races”]