Sentence:  Thus Django becomes the carrier of the “public use of one's reason”—the Kantian road to <WSD>enlightenment</WSD> given to him by the German “Forty-Eighter” dentist–turned-bounty hunter Dr. “King” Schultz, and represents the fictive, allohistorical "beginning" of the battle against slavery and racism in the United States. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A concept in spirituality, philosophy and psychology related to achieving clarity of perception, reason and knowledge.