The New World Order
In any slave society, slave-owners always faced the risk of their property running away and seeking an illusory freedom.
And in today's modern Africa the problem still persists with white slaves absconding from their lawful bondage to their black owners. That a slave even attempts to escape is either a sign of his desperation or his low intelligence. After all, Africa is a black continent and there are no safe havens for runaway white slaves.
Fortunately, there are enterprising men - bounty-hunters - who, for a fee, use ferocious dogs to hunt down and return any runaway slave to its owner.
Once the canines have the slave's scent there is no escaping and his recapture is a foregone conclusion.
One can imagine the fugitive slave's fear as he hears the dogs' baying and barking growing ever-nearer. And the sheer terror as he is surrounded by the snapping, snarling, frothing mouths of the angry animals as they bring him to ground. The dogs have been trained not to injure the slave merely to hold him until the bounty-hunters catch up and restrain him.
The wretched slave is then returned to his master unharmed but subdued. The bounty-hunters collect their reward and depart. All that remains now is for the slave's master to decide his punishment.
Desperately, the terrified slave couches at his master's feet and begs to be spared the fifty strokes of the lash which is the minimal punishment he can expect.
The slave silently prays that his master is in a merciful mood!
Picture found on the internet; the text is mine.
My sadistic fantasy is tickled by that phrase:
ReplyDelete“AFTER ALL, AFRICA IS A BLACK CONTINENT AND THERE ARE NO SAFE HAVENS FOR RUNAWAY WHITE SLAVES.”
Oddly this recalls to my mind a real historical situation of ancient Rome.
One of the worst and most insistent fears of ancient Romans ….. and especially a true nightmare for rich upper social classes whose components often owned many thousands slaves …. was the fact that, in most cases, the condition of SLAVES was not recognizable at a first sight.
Slaves did not wear “special uniforms” and had not “special looks” that immediately distinguished them from free men …….. and – apart from those slaves (that in fact became after Servile Wars more and more numerous) whose Masters had equipped with a iron collar, or had branded with the name of their owner- if a Roman Lord was meeting an unknown young man in the street or even inside his house, in many cases he couldn’t tell if that youth was one of his own slaves ……. or if he was the slave of other Roman citizens ….. or if, on the contrary, he was a free man.
This worried very much Romans because it was considered a source of possible significant danger for free citizens.
In the late Republic this led even to many discussions in the Roman Senate with some Senators supporting the enactment of a new Law that was imposing to slaves some special mandatory “mark of recognition” of their servile status (e.g. a mandatory sign on their tunic or something similar).
All these discussions stopped, when one Senator observed that, if Roman slaves would have been able to distinguish all the other slaves and count themselves ……. they would have realized that in Roman Empire slaves were MANY TIMES more numerous than free men !!!!!!! ……. and this would have been much more dangerous for possible revolts.
Well, in this fascinating NEW WORLD ORDER in Africa …… where all Masters are black and all slaves are white ……… there is not at all this “problem” with their slaves that troubled ancient Romans.
All Masters and all slaves are immediately recognizable by the colour of their skin !
…… and of course, in such a situation an attempt of running away is the most incredibly foolish thing !
But it could be also true that white slaves are able to count themselves …… and if they are sufficiently numerous perhaps they could find a new “Spartacus” !
…….. and of course, like in ancient Rome, after the defeat of the insurgent white slaves by the black African Army, six thousands or even more crosses will adorn all the main roads leading to the African Capital !
Karel