#AntonWilhelmAmo

“A four-year-old taken from West Africa became a doctor of philosophy in the heart of the German Enlightenment, made a real contribution to the mind–body debate, defended the legal rights of Africans in Europe — and when the racist mockery came, sailed home.”

“Descartes got the mind–body split wrong in one crucial place: the mind does not feel anything. Sensation — pain, warmth, color, sound — belongs entirely to the living body; the mind's job is to know and to will.”