1. African Slave Trade
Chapter One ANALYSIS OF THE CONCEPT OF CASTE It seems necessary at the outset to point out the specific features of the caste system, in order more clearly to bring out the difference in social structure which has always existed between Europe and Africa. The originality of the system resides in the fact that the dynamic elements of society, whose discontent might have engendered revolution, are really satisfied with their social condition and do not seek to change it: a man of so- called "inferior caste" would categorically refuse to enter a so- called "superior" one....
White people transferred the slaves living in Africa to the New Land and treated them as their property, not as human beings. ... One anonymous slave owner in his letter to Lord Brougham argues that "...as a slave, he would have at least the protection of one master interested in his welfare; as a freeman, almost beyond the pale of government protection, with no one to take care of him, of a despised and inferior race, a stranger in a land of strangers, how miserable would be his fate!"... "The condition of the slaves of the United States... is far in advance of that of any similar number of ...
White people transferred the slaves living in Africa to the New Land and treated them as their property, not as human beings. ... One anonymous slave owner in his letter to Lord Brougham argues that "...as a slave, he would have at least the protection of one master interested in his welfare; as a freeman, almost beyond the pale of government protection, with no one to take care of him, of a despised and inferior race, a stranger in a land of strangers, how miserable would be his fate!"... "The condition of the slaves of the United States... is far in advance of that of any similar number of ...
Their horror may be well conceived if we think that lots of that Negroes were found, at the end of their voyage, in different stages of suffocation; lots of them were foaming at the mouth and in their last agonies; many were already dead. ... The Africans were linked in pairs or in threes by chains, and sometimes the companion was a dead body; sometimes of the three attached to the same chain, one would be dying and another already dead. ...