MDDM Ch. 62 Slavery

[Otto]

Definitely some of the Native American tribes took slaves (defeated enemies)
before the Europeans came. Zhang's words are very wise.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "jbor" <jbor at bigpond.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject: MDDM Ch. 62 Slavery


> A couple of "alternative" perspectives on slavery, world history etc.
>
> Stig: " ... the 'new' Continent Europeans found, had been long attended,
> from its own ancient Days, by murder, slavery, and the poor fragments of a
> Magic irreparably broken." (612.10)
>
> Capt. Zhang: "If you think you see no Slaves in Pennsylvania, [...] why,
> look again. They are not all African, nor do some of them even yet know,--
> may never know, --that they are Slaves. Slavery is very old upon these
> shores,-- there is no Innocence upon the Practice anywhere, neither among
> the Indians nor the Spanish nor in the behavior of the rest of
Christendom,
> if it come to that." (615-6)
>
> best


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