Hearing Stanley's words, the room was quiet for a while, and anyone who knew that he had done bad things would easily feel guilty as long as he didn't lose his conscience.
Europeans suddenly broke in, breaking the peaceful life of local aborigines for thousands of years.
"Mr. Stanley, you don't have to be so negative, this is probably the price you have to pay for civilization!" Constantine comforted.
"The price to be paid for civilization?" Nina and Stanley were a little puzzled when they heard Constantine's words.
"The Bible records that God created the ancestors of mankind, Adam and Eve. He built a paradise for them in a place called Eden. The garden is full of exotic flowers and fruits, and various trees grow there. The ground is sprinkled with gold, pearls and red agate. The abundant river water flows through the garden and nourishes the land. Because of the gift of God, the manor is rich in grain and fruitful." Constantine said.
Nina and Stanley listened carefully to Constantine's narration. There is nothing unusual about this story. As long as Christians almost all know this story, there must be a following.
"Eve Adam lived happily in the manor, enjoying the various harvests in the garden, leisurely and unrestrained, never knowing what troubles were. Until one day, the two who were tempted ate the forbidden fruit in the garden and were offended. To God, they were driven out of the Garden of Eden." After listening to Constantine's words, the two of them contacted the situation of the indigenous Africans before, and fell into contemplation.
"Since then they have entered Paradise Lost. People have to work hard to get food for their stomachs. They work hard, just for subsistence, and they won't get liberation until they get into the soil," Constantine said.
"Maybe this is the price you must pay to enter civilization. At the beginning of civilization, it was a disaster that violated human nature. Countless people dream of having such a paradise, without sweating and working hard in the land. You can get any food by working in the middle of nowhere, free from worries," said Constantine himself.
"Perhaps now is the time when people in Southern Africa enter Paradise Lost. Of course, these are all biblical stories. Don't take it too seriously. Besides, we are far from the snake that lured Africans to eat the forbidden fruit (Ava Xada Seduced by snakes), you must know where the Portuguese began the slave trade in the 16th century. The local chiefs fought with Portuguese muskets and used captives to trade goods with the Portuguese," Constantine said.
"What's more, it was not a paradise originally. Before the Portuguese came, their various tribes weren't fighting for hegemony, the Kingdom of Congo, the Kingdom of Kuba (all feudal regimes established by the indigenous people of the Congo River in Africa), etc., so We don't need to burden ourselves with such a heavy moral burden." Constantine seemed to be comforting himself more.
"Besides, speaking of the notorious slave trade, the Portuguese are rarely engaged in it now, but the Arabs are rampant," Constantine said.
Indeed, when it comes to the slave trade, people will first think of the evil European colonists who sold black people to the American plantations for profit, and those American slave owners cruelly squeezed and abused their slaves.
Indeed, this is a historical fact, but it is only a partial fact.
In the bloody and evil interest chain of slave trade, which is heinous and violates human relations, which manor and slave owners in the Americas are downstream in this interest chain.
European colonists were responsible for buying black slaves and then transporting them to the Americas and sending them to slave owners, playing an intermediary role in this chain of interests.
So who is playing the upstream of this interest chain?
That is, who personally caught black people, ransacked black people's villages, slaughtered black people who dared to resist, turned women and children among black people into slaves, and then sold them to intermediaries such as European colonists?
Isn't this the lice on the bald head, it's an obvious thing? It's not just the slaves that European colonists grabbed.
It is true that some of them were caught by European colonists themselves, but only a small part of them. Most of the blacks who were trafficked were actually bought from others! ! !
The upper stream of the interest chain is the capture of slaves and the trade. It is not only the European colonists who play this role.
In the early days of the great nautical era, the Portuguese once did some slave hunting, but that was only a small amount in a short period of time.
Although the Portuguese is a colonial power, their national strength has not been strong. He mainly relies on trade to make money, unlike the Netherlands, Britain, and France, which are not only a powerful country in trade but also an industrial power.
Portugal has always been weak and has a sparse population. Therefore, the Portuguese are unable to personally capture a large number of slaves in Africa.
The Portuguese are weak in their country, so they are more inclined to obtain slaves through trade, such as using muskets, glass balls or some other European goods.
During the main period of the slave trade, European slaves were bought from the Arab kingdoms along the coast of Africa or the Bantu kingdoms. Instead of the Europeans doing it themselves.
Most of the slave providers have been forgotten by the world!
They are Arabs.
Until the end of the nineteenth century, European colonists only set up strongholds on both sides of the African coast or some navigable rivers to facilitate trade.
Their control of Africa is far from being as strong as everyone opens the colonial map of Africa, and even a large part of the territory is only assigned to a certain place on the map of European politicians. Country, but the overlord country may not have actually controlled most of the colony from beginning to end. They only dispatched officials to manage certain key areas, such as mining areas, and some areas suitable for growing cash crops.
In other words, Europeans have no ability to go deep into the interior of Africa and capture blacks on a large scale as slaves for trafficking.
After all, there is no railway in Africa, and the world has not yet invented airplanes and cars, which makes Europeans want to capture black slaves on a large scale and cannot do anything.
In addition, European whites are not suitable for the climate of Africa. At that time, many diseases did not have specific medicines. For example, the invention of artemisinin for the treatment of malaria occurred after World War II. Cinchona was used to treat malaria before. The bark has serious side effects.
Everyone knows that European whites carried out evil black slave trade operations in the era of heinous colonialism, and African blacks were caught in batches all over the world as lowly labor.
However, few people have noticed the Arab slave trade history of more than 1,000 years.
And the Arab world in the Middle East has never reflected on its history of slavery.
This is different from European whites.
Until the 21st century, the relationship between the black Africa south of the Sahara Desert and the white Africa north of the desert could not be dealt with.
Because Arab countries play dumb about their history of trafficking in large numbers of blacks.
The Arabs in the Middle East were the first race in human history to organize large-scale trafficking in African slaves. Their slave trade history predates the Western slave trade.