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Shucking down!
"C'mon, boy, lose the shirt! From now on, you won't be wearing any clothes. No doubt your future master will want to keep you slave naked to show off your slave-body to his friends and acquaintances. Not to worry, though, we'll fit a nice, metal, slave-collar around your neck and a matching one around your cock and balls to highlight them. That's quite a hard-on you have there, boy. With an erection like that as you stand on the auction-block, you'll sell well. You'll cost a small fortune, I should think."
Picture found on the internet; source unknown. The text is mine.
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Monday 17 February 2020
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Will you ever finish the "River Bend" stories?
ReplyDeleteThank you for your enquiry re "Master of River's Bend".
DeleteQuite co-incidentally, even before i saw your comment, I began to write a new chapter of RB. I'm not sure what prompted me to do, but for some reason i felt it was time to add to Ramses "adventures".
I explained in a previous reply how i came to write this story and i have always regarded its one of my favourites. Why did i pause writing it?
The subject matter is contentious and i have been abused because of it. i have been told by some, as a non-American, i have no right to "rewrite" US history regardless of the fact that the story doesn't make that claim; it was only ever meant to be a work of fiction. Others have been more direct in their abuse of me describing me, among other offensive insults, as a n.....-lover.
Anyone who writes in the public domain, leaves himself open to criticism or praise and i have always accepted both equally. In fact, i enjoy interacting with those who make contact with me; it is what makes writing worthwhile. However, i have always believed criticism should be constructive and never descend to the level of personal abuse. Sadly, "RB" seems to bring out the worst in some commentators and after a certain amount of negativity, you lose enthusiasm. Which is what happened to me.
i recall some years ago, a writer in the US who was the victim of bullying to such an extent that he stopped writing altogether. i like to write and it gives me the opportunity to express my own fantasies of slavery in my own words. And that is why i developed Nova Baiae; it filled the void left by "River's Bend".
After a while, it became hard to concentrate on how to develop the story of "River's Bend" further without giving offence, but always there was/is the need for me to continue with it. And last night, as i finished the next chapter of Nova Baiae, I felt the urge to add to "RB" and i have added three pages to the story. Hopefully, i will regain my enthusiasm to continue with it.
Regards,
Chris
What you are writing above, our great Jean-Christophe, is an episode of an extreme gravity and that could never been excused .
DeleteWhile all your admirers, starting from me, obviously give to you all their support and solidarity and blame this idiotic behavior of some people, whose arguments are really difficult to understand to me …… a sort of short—sighted blend between “politically correct” and a “guilty conscience” for a certain past history of a Country like USA ? ……. allow me to say that the theme of “White Slaves & Black Masters” (if this was, as I suppose, what stirred the stupid reaction of your abusers) can certainly not only LEGITIMATELY be used in a totally “FICTIONAL” story like your beautiful “MASTER OF RIVER's BEND” for sure is (only an idiot could accuse you of “trying to rewrite US history” through that excellent fictional work !) .
This theme has also MANY and REAL historical examples in the past, even forgetting USA and their past history of slavery of Africans to white people.
As I mentioned in some old post and also in some more recent ones, e.g. in ancient Rome –where slavery was not based on race or on the colour of the skin- black African slaves (differently from what generally thought) were rather rare and most slaves arrived from the Mediterranean area and from Europe.
However in the Roman Empire were also living (as historically documented, especially in the late Empire) very wealthy merchants, who were native from the South or Egypt (Nubia) and from Ethiopia, and who therefore were black men.
Often these rich black African merchants of ancient Rome possessed hundreds or thousands of slaves (like all rich Romans) who were obviously mostly WHITE slaves (therefore you could certainly use, with a full “historical accuracy”, African Black Masters and white slaves, even in all the stories of yours that are set in ancient Rome, starting of course from the extraordinarily beautiful “NOVA BAIAE”).
Moreover “ WHITE SLAVES AFRICAN MASTERS” was e.g. the title of an excellent popular historical book (written by the way, by an USA historian and University teacher !) about the slavery of European Christians in the Northern-African Barbary States, an history that, being lasted from the 8th to at least the first half of the 19th century (more than eleven centuries !) probably represents the longest case of uninterrupted “slave system” in the same Countries, in the whole history of mankind.
Of course in the Barbary States the main part of Masters were actually Arabs, therefore not “blacks”; however there were also a large portion of the free population – and often wealthy Lords, owners of many Christian slaves- who were deriving from trans-Saharan Countries of central Africa (like Niger) or from lands in the southern Atlantic coast of Western Africa, who therefore were black Africans.
Even in the Americas (believe or not) there have been similar cases !
E.g. it is notorious that among the slaves sold in the British colonies of the Caribbean, in the 17th and 18th centuries, there were also several WHITES, especially from the poorest regions of UK and Ireland, sold for debts or as criminals.
And in various cases, there were (historically documented !) e.g. also African black ex-slaves, who had been set free by their ancient Masters, and who in their turn, had become wealthy and who were purchasing English, Irish or Scottish slaves !
Karel
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As I also mention in a very recent post, also during the many Colonial and post-Colonial wars of the 19th and even 20th century of European Powers in Africa, there have been several cases of European soldiers, captured by black Africans who were kept as slaves or that were even traded as slaves, e.g. through the always present Arab slave-traders, towards other Countries, even outside Africa, etc.etc.etc.
DeleteSo, dear Chris, your denigrators and abusers show not only of pleading baseless accusations towards your beautiful “MASTER OF RIVER's BEND” story; but they show also of being profoundly ignorant in History !
Don’t care of them, great Chris, and feel free of expressing your outstanding creativity and Art in all the ways that you think opportune.
Karel
Karel, what you say is true and there are people who hold certain points of view and never liked to be challenged on them. I am neither an "apologist" nor a "revisionist". I don't rewrite history although, at times, I do challenge other peoples interpretation of it.
ReplyDeleteI am simply a story-teller with no articular axe to grind and I do find it irksome that for some of my readers the subject of black slavery is a "no go zone" and the notion that blacks can have authority over whites is anathema to them. Quite simply, and in spite of "political correctness", you can't change the facts of history; you can learn from them and never repeat the mistakes of the past.
I consider "Master of River's Bend" as one of my favourite stories. I'm not alone in thinking this and the large number of messages I receive concerning "RB" confirm this. I receive more messages for this story than any of my other stories.
Personally. I derived a lot of satisfaction from writing this story. As you would probably have realised the theme of a young man becoming a slave is a frequently used subject in my stories and it is in keeping with my view that all men, regardless of race, colour, class or creed can become slaves.
Personally, I make no distinction between the colour of a man's skin either in fiction or real life. In my eyes, all men are equal!
Chris,
ReplyDeleteI fully agree with you and allow me to “give you the honour” that you fully deserve, both as an outstanding Artist, as well as as a very respectable gentleman of superior culture and of exquisite politeness and uncommon accomplishment.
Karel