Chapter 1208 The Return of the Black Slave
While the two were talking, they also started to head towards the beer hall. Even during off-duty hours, the streets of Falta New District were full of people coming and going, and it was very lively.
"Hey, look, that car should be full of black people, right?" Mars suddenly touched Anton with his arm and said.
I saw an East Africa Development Vehicle speeding past on the street. This large transport vehicle, which is common in East Africa, naturally did not have any old people, but the people in the vehicle attracted extra attention.
Anton also looked in the direction Mars pointed, and sure enough, a car carrying a group of black people came towards them. No, it should be said that it was a carload of black people. Not far behind the car, there were also There are several identical cars.
"By the way, it is indeed rare to see black people in East Africa. I remember that there were more black people in East Africa when I was a child, but I only heard about it from my parents. When we remember, we could no longer see it in the village. When we came to the west later, , I only saw it occasionally at some construction sites on both sides of the railway." Anton said.
Over time, black people have become a real rarity in East Africa, and now black people in East Africa are just legends even to some uninformed East Africans.
And Anton and Mars were able to see black people before, but also benefited from the place they came to. The west can be said to be the last gathering place for black people in East Africa, but in these years, it has also been replaced by East Africans. It has become a rare species.
Mars Youyou said: "I remember that a few years ago, you could still see engineering teams composed of black people in many places. This should be the first time we have seen black people in this year. There are still so many black people, and it seems that their age I’m afraid it’s not too small.”
The black people in the car were obviously a little old, and their relatively thin bodies seemed to be malnourished, but in fact they were premature aging caused by old age and excessive labor intensity.
In recent years, with the increase in productivity in East Africa and the further development of agriculture, the overflow of food production has made the food of black people in East Africa not very bad, and has even been improved.
However, this improvement in diet cannot offset aging and high-intensity work, so it is naturally impossible for black people to appear stronger.
East Africans in this era generally had good eyesight, so Anton and Mars could clearly see the white hair on the black hair on the vehicle even though they were several meters apart.
Because of the characteristics of the race, even if the black hair is long, it will be curled up, so it does not look very long. The white hair mixed in forms white scars on the skull and on the black skin. It looks more eye-catching against the background.
"These black people look like they are senile. If they are shipped to Falta at this time, they are probably going to be shipped overseas!" Mars guessed.
Although the East African government is very taboo about the black slaves under its rule, it does not want to let out any information.
Therefore, most East African citizens are very aware of the East African government's treatment of black people, which is to leave no land but no people. Even in the early years, black people in East Africa were one of the main sources of slave trade in the international market.
It can be said that East Africa forced the timeline of the world's large-scale black slave trade to continue until the end of the 19th century. At that time, even West Africa had officially banned the slave trade.
Even to put it bluntly, black people in the United States, Brazil and other American countries can already produce and sell their own products, and no longer need European slave traders as middlemen who make profit from the price difference. Over hundreds of years, black people have taken root and multiplied in the American continent for several generations, with a population of tens of millions. Even in West Africa, which has the largest number of black people in the world, it is probably not much better. In this case, black slaves were sold from Africa. Going to America is completely unnecessary.
In the last century, the fundamental reason why East Africa was able to operate the black slave trade was because the East African government subsidized slave ships and slave merchants. This made the East African version of the slave trade unprofitable at all, and this kind of "charitable" black slave trade Slave trade, profit-seeking European slave traders obviously could not do this.
Furthermore, the colonies of European countries have also undergone great changes. In the past, the center of Europe's colonies was on the American continent. Several traditional colonial powers once had vast colonies in the Americas.
Nowadays, the colonial focus of European countries has turned to West Africa and Asia. West Africa and Asia are not the Americas a few hundred years ago. These two regions have never lacked populations.
The most typical one is India. If the Indians in the Americas had half the population density of India, I am afraid that the Europeans would not need to transport black slaves thousands of miles from Africa to plantations in the Americas. After all, the slave trade also requires costs. of.
Mars said: "Although it is undeniable that black slaves contributed an important force to the development of the empire, I also agree with the imperial government's resolute attitude. Keeping these black people in East Africa will only cause hidden dangers in the future. Today, the United States That’s how society is, so we can’t go the same way as the United States.”
The East African government has always taken the United States as a guide when it comes to public opinion on the stay and stay of black people. After all, the United States is now the largest black country in the world, and black people who have lost control have caused a large number of social problems in American society.
Although the black problem in the United States has not affected the interests of white Americans due to their low status, this trend has become increasingly obvious.
The influence of black people on the dark side of American society is becoming increasingly profound. A large number of gangs' grassroots backbones recruit from the black group. As time goes by, black people will definitely become a profound social problem in American society in the future, unless the US government changes its attitude towards black people. But this is obviously impossible.
Anton said: "All in all, I definitely don't want the country to keep black people. I don't want to give the black people in this country an equal attitude. I'm afraid most people have the same idea. In this case, the hatred between the empire and the black group will naturally not be eliminated. , if we follow the example of the United States after the Civil War and grant them national status, we will only create trouble.”
The oppression of black people in East Africa can be said to be deep into the bones, so it is impossible for East Africa to live in peace with the black community. Anton does not think that he can generously get rid of his narrow thinking and put the black slaves at the bottom of the contempt chain in East African society on the same level as himself. of equal status.
Mars also said: "I support your view. It is quite difficult to educate black people. After all, they lack a history of civilization and cannot integrate into modern society."
"You can know this if you look at the current situation of black people in the United States and other countries in the Americas. Now black people in America are basically equated with criminals. For these black people, the most suitable place for them is to return to the prairie and game with wild animals. , rather than being at a loss in modern society.”
Anton said: "Now the slave trade has completely stopped, and the age of these black people is obviously impossible to be sold to the Americas as slaves, so the government's treatment of them is, as you said, to release them to the grasslands. , but the grasslands of West Africa.”
The methods of dealing with black people in East Africa are traceable. As long as they do not die in East Africa, the destination of the black people is to be exiled to other parts of the world. In the past, it was the Americas and West Africa, but now it can only be West Africa.
As Anton said, black people in East Africa are no longer young. It is impossible for them to be used as slaves and sold to other countries as laborers. It is also impossible for East Africa to be responsible for providing for them in their old age.
Therefore, the final destination of these black people can be imagined. It can only be the relatively chaotic West Africa. Although it is the colony of European countries, European countries now have no energy to care about the "population garbage" thrown away from East Africa to West Africa. ".
(End of chapter)