Slaver [antikvár]

In the Beginning: There are two kinds of slavery in which man indulges. The more common in history, and the more easily understood, is the slavery that results as a by-product of war: after conquest, the victor enslaves the vanquished to work and produce for his purposes as a matter of right through might. This custom has existed among all races of man from the beginnings of recorded history. It still exists in many underdeveloped areas of the world, among men of black, white, yellow, and red skins. And regardless of the moral, legal, or social label given to any individual situation, the fundamental actuality is slavery - the utilisation of one man's life in the service of another. The second type of slavery, and the one with which this book is concerned, is less 'logical', certainly less easy to comprehend. This is the slavery that is not a by-product of war, but the purpose of war. It is the slavery that results when one man, or one tribe, makes war on his brother - or the inhabitants of the next valley - for the express purpose of selling the vanquished to a third party for a price, whether it be gold or the products of its expenditure. We know that the Negro of Africa devised this type of slavery unaided by the European; it existed in all parts of the Dark Continent long before one white man set foot on the northern fringe of the vast mysterious land below the Mediterranean Sea. Among scholars, there are many suggested explanations of the black African's innate capacity for tolerating, indeed for cultivating, slavery, and for his steadfast refusal to recognise the basic human rights of his own peoples. Most logical,if not charitable, is the theory that in ten thousand years of observable history, the pure African produced nothing worth economic organisation except the flesh and blood of his progeny, and that in the absence of a better medium of exchange, he traded in humanity. Indeed, there is a positive psychology based upon intensive study which says that the multitudinous tribes of Africa are a direct result of the slavery patterns practiced between nomadic groups, that unity or cohesion of any 5