AtDDtA SPOILER ALERT p. 528

[Dave Monroe]

"... Africa remained the unspoken, the unpermitted term that kept them
solid and resolute."  (AtD, p. 528)

Cf. ...

"'Ev'rywhere they've sent us,-- the Cape, St. Helena, America,--
what's the Element common to all?'
   "'Long Voyages by Sea,' replies Mason, blinking in Exhaustion by
now chronick.  'Was there anything else?'
   "'Slaves.  Ev'ry day at the Cape, we lived with Slavery in our
faces,-- more of it at St. Helena,-- and now here we are again, in
another Colony, this time having drawn them a Line bewteen their
Slave-Keepers, and their Wage-Payers, as if doom'd to
re-encounter thro' the World this Public Secret, this shameful
Core....  Pretending it to be ever somewhere else ...

[...]

"... Where does it end?  No matter where in it we go, shall we find
all the World Tyrants and Slaves?  America was the one place we shoud
not have found them.'"  (M&D, Ch. 71, pp. 692-3)

Et al. ...

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