This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...'My father and my mother, oh, they have suffered need! They sold me away for a little bit of bread, All into the heathenish country, there to perish!' "In times of famine, men in Africa have been known to sell themselves, in order, with the price of their freedom, to provide for those dependent on them; parents have at ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...'My father and my mother, oh, they have suffered need! They sold me away for a little bit of bread, All into the heathenish country, there to perish!' "In times of famine, men in Africa have been known to sell themselves, in order, with the price of their freedom, to provide for those dependent on them; parents have at such times, perhaps, even sold their own children into bondage. But it is to be remembered that the species of serfdom which exists in Africa, among the negro nations, bears no resemblance to slavery as we know it. The African bondman has rights; he is a member of the community, protected by the laws. He is completely disfranchised only when he passes from his Pagan master to his Christian owner. In negro Africa the master cannot sell his bondman, except for crime of which he shall have been duly convicted by public trial. Such is the law of African slavery, according to Mungo Park. Laing makes the same statement. Even in Congo--which seems to have been almost more than any other part of Africa depraved and ruined by the slavetrade--Tuckey found that the domestic slave was not subject to sale. Captives taken in war, and men who have incurred slavery as a penalty, are excepted from these privileges; but only in their own persons; their children have the rights of domestic bondmen. The African serf has generally light work and gentle treatment. Park says, that, in all labors, mechanic or agricultural, the master is seen working with the bondman, 'without any distinction of superiority.' As Murray sums it up: 'The slavery of African to African is comparatively mild. The labor required in this state of society is not such as to impose suffering or exhaustion; the slave sits on the same mat with his master, eats out of the same dish, and talk...
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