" 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 "

― Eduardo Galeano , Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone