The Lottery Winner
"I just won me first prize in the lottery. I've been able to buy an upmarket apartment, an expensive automobile and a complete new wardrobe of clothes. All I need now is my own whigga fuck-boy."
"Show me your most expensive stock of whitey slaves with deep throats and tight asses!"
Artwork by the incomparable Bazz whose evocative artwork always fires my imagination. Bazz, thank you for the inspiration.
Very arousing modern setting.
ReplyDeleteHowever, somehow inspired by this "BLACK Master" with his "Whigga" slave, allow me to comment, going a bit "off topic", back to my preferred times of ancient Rome, the moment, in the whole history of mankind, of the maximum exploitation of slavery and of slaves's trade and labour as the bases themselves of the whole Society, both in terms of number / vastness as well in terms of ruthless cruelty towards slaves.
As well know, and differently from what it (mainly but not exclusively) happened in other more recent historical periods, in ancient Rome slavery was not based at all on any "racial criterion". Every man, with whichever skin color and with whichever origin from any land in the world (with the fundamental exception of Roman citizens, whose situation would deserve a special discussion) MIGHT be a slave or MIGHT be a Master, on owner of slaves, depending on the often whimsical circumstances and on the cases of life.
In ancient Rome it often happened that, in several circumstances, it was very difficult or almost impossible to say, simply from the look of a man, if he was a slave …… or on the contrary if he was a free man, and even more a rich and aristocratic owner of thousands of slaves !
In particular the color of skin didn’t mean anything and differently from what many readers (influenced by the narrations about black African slavery in the Americas) BLACK AFRICAN slaves were RARE in ancient Rome. In fact the few black Africans that arrived in the Roman Slave Markets arrived from “Nubia” and Ethiopia , i.e. from South of Egypt because the immense forests of Equatorial Africa had never a regular trade with the Roman world (even African wild beasts, like lions and elephants at that time were captured in Northern Africa, north of Sahara.).
On the contrary there are evidences and testimonies – both in literary works and in archeological finds, that, especially in the late Empire, very rich BLACK lord, generally wealthy merchants (generally Nubians and Ethiopians) trading with Arabia and Ethiopia for very precious and rare goods like pearls, incense, silk etc. become extremely affluent and powerful Lords and tycoons in Imperial Rome ……. And of course in Rome they owned hundreds or even thousands of WHITE slaves, from Nordic Celts. Gauls and Germans to Southern Iberians, illyrians, Thracians or Greeks.
Therefore the situation “BLACK MASTER / WHITE SLAVES” not only certainly existed already in ancient Rome ….. but somehow it was most probably even more frequent that the reverse one (i.e. White Master / Black Slaves) especially in the late Empire.
Karel
By the way, about this fact – that I always found “bizarre & fascinating” – i.e. that in ancient Rome it was difficult or sometimes even impossible to distinguish from their simple look if a man was a slave or a free man (may be even a noble one) there are in Roman history two episodes that have especially impressed me.
ReplyDeleteThe first episode tells that In 70 BC, so immediately after the bloody defeat of the slave-insurrection by Spartacus, Roman owners of slaves were so much frightened for possible new rebellions by their slaves, that a Roman Senator, Acilius Glabrius, proposed a new Law that in case would oblige the slaves to wear some sort of standard “distinctive sign / marking” that could immediately identify him as a slave and not as a free man.
In the Senate Cicero took a strong position against this Law, that actually was rejected, by simply observing that, if all slaves could recognize other slaves and could COUNT THEMSELVES ……. they would immediately realize how much numerous they were, as numerous as their owners of even more numerous !!!! ……. And this awareness would have certainly encouraged new and even bloodier rebellions !
In fact it is calculated that in the city of Rome, at the time slaves were at least 40% of the population; and in certain areas, with smaller towns and villages, close to large mines, estates and farms, full of thousands chained slaves, the number of slave among the overall population could easily overcome by far the number of free people.
The second episode has a more “lascivious” setting and is narrated by the Christian writer Tertullian.
As known, in the Public Baths (Thermae) Romans took warm and cold baths stark-naked, accompanied by young slaves (most often cute teenage lads) who also we fully nude.
Well Tertullian narrates that a libidinous old Roman Patrician, inside a Public Bath, had “eyed up” a very beautiful adolescent lad (of course he too fully naked) who seemed to be guarding the clothes of a man.
The lewd Patrician, sexually aroused by the beauty of the boy, was convinced that he was (as it often happened) a young slave-lad who was guarding the clothes of his Master while he was taking a bath in one of the pools.
Therefore the libidinous Roman man started not only to talk with the boy asking who was his Master ….. and in case if his Master could sell him at some price etc. etc. …… but the old man started even to caress, with very obscene caresses, the nude body of the beautiful adolescent lad, that he though being a slave.
Fortunately for the boy ……. who actually was the noble son of a Senator ! ……. his father arrived and of course he ordered his (real) other slaves to beat and expel out of the Public Baths the lewd old Roman that had dared to touch so obscenely his noble son !
It’s indeed a problem when slaves cannot be immediately distinguished from their Masters and from free men !
Karel