One of them confessed to Paul that his tribe had heard stories about the
fiercely cannibalistic ways of white men. Paul's first instinct was to
laugh him off as a simpleminded fool. But the legend hadn't been
conjured from thin air. When Paul tried to assure him that white men
didn't eat black men, the man confronted him with a direct challenge:
explain why they bought and sold Africans as if they were cattle, not
human beings.
"Why do you come from nobody knows where, and carry off our men, and women, and children?" the man asked Paul. "Do you not fatten them in your far country and eat them?
- Monte Reel, Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
"Why do you come from nobody knows where, and carry off our men, and women, and children?" the man asked Paul. "Do you not fatten them in your far country and eat them?
- Monte Reel, Between Man and Beast: An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure That Took the Victorian World by Storm
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