Autre bel article dans le NY Times d'aujourd'hui. Je n'avais jamais pensé à faire le lien entre le héros de l'unification de l'Italie et l'histoire américaine... Et pourtant!
Un premier extrait:
Most books and documentaries about the American Civil War frame it as a saga that unfolded alongside a few legendary streams in Virginia and Tennessee, and across some hilltops in Georgia and Pennsylvania. But in fact, the war’s full story spans oceans and continents. The 19th-century United States was neither as isolated from world politics nor as impervious to overseas events as it is often described. For instance, Garibaldi, the hero of Italian liberation and unification, played a significant role – as an inspiration, though eventually almost as a direct participant – in our own country’s simultaneous struggle.
Un second et lien pour l'article au complet:
Abolitionists saw in Garibaldi a kind of Mediterranean John Brown. When William Cullen Bryant, America’s most revered literary figure, published a new poem hailing the newly liberated inhabitants of Italy’s medieval fiefdoms – “Slaves but yestereve were they,/Freemen with the dawning day” – it did not require much exegesis to realize that he was also thinking about bondsmen closer to home. Frederick Douglass, in his Dec. 3 speech in Boston, predicted that if the South seceded, “I believe a Garibaldi would arise who would march into those States with a thousand men, and summon to his standard sixty thousand, if necessary, to accomplish the freedom of the slave.”
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/04/hero-of-two-worlds/?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=ab1
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