Quotes from John Bierman

Why a sooty-faced negro from a distant land should be an element of disturbance between white brothers was a puzzle to me.

Oh, for once I was beginning to know the real truth! Man was born for slaughter!

slave dhows coming and slave dhows going away...On visiting the slave market, I found about 300 slaves exposed for sale...The teeth are examined, the cloth lifted to examine the lower limbs, and a stick thrown for a slave to bring, and thus exhibit his paces. Some are dragged through the crowd by hand and the price called incessantly..."[145]