Jewish merchants owned, insured, and financed slave ships and outfitted them with chains and shackles. or, the Jewish slaveholders and traders. They are, to speak the truth, in point of parental affection, inferior to brutes.' So little do they care for their offspring, that many offered to sell me any of their sons or daughters as slaves. 'Not even the appearance of affection exists between husband and wife, or between parents and children. His reply was, ' I have as much freedom as I want, and I prefer to buy a slave to wait upon me.' ' 'A slave in Gabun was once asked why he did not take the money, which he was known to have accumulated, and ransom himself. The African sees very little difference between the authority exercised over him by one whom he acknowledges as his master and the petty tyranny which is exercised by most African chiefs over their subjects and so long as he is worked moderately, and treated kindly, he has but little cause for dissatisfaction, and not infrequently by his own choice places himself in this condition.' 'The liability to fall into a condition of servitude is not so frightful in Africa as it is where there is a higher appreciation of personal liberty nor does the same odium attach to the term slave as is attached to it among civilized men. Nobody denies that slavery is a grave transgression and crime against humanity, except, perhaps, the Africans themselves: But even in the midst of a Western civilization their natural tendencies and habits call back to their heritage and it is illuminating to understand whence they originate. The African-Americans of the present are only marginally different from their imported ancestors, as they have 20% white american admixture on average.

In short, it captures the essence of their nature.

Hinton provides an ample inventory of facts, observations, citations and anecdotes, covering a pertinent range of topics from physical traits and bodily wants, to rites, traditions and customs of the Africans. The purpose of this anthropological compilation is to unequivocally demonstrate that the European and African races are too different to live together in harmony under the same laws. Eminently hilarious but what's more important-eye opening.

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