African Entrepreneurship Records 2

Chapter 1208 The Return of the Black Slaves

While the two were talking, they started to head towards the beer hall. Even at the end of the working day, the streets of Falta New District were bustling with people.

"Hey, look? That car should be full of black people!" Mars suddenly touched Anton with his arm and said.

I saw an East African Pioneer brand car speeding past on the street. Naturally, there were no old men on this large transport vehicle commonly seen in East Africa, but the people on the vehicle attracted special attention.

Anton also looked in the direction Mars pointed, and sure enough, a car carrying a group of black people was coming towards them. No, it should be said that it was a car full of black people. Not far behind this car, there were several similar cars.

"By the way, black people are indeed rare in East Africa. I remember that there were quite a lot of black people in East Africa when I was a child, but I only heard about it from my parents. When we could remember, they were no longer seen in the village. Later, when we came to the west, we occasionally saw them on construction sites on both sides of the railway." Anton said.

As time went by, black people became a real rarity in East Africa, and now black people in East Africa are just legends even to some uninformed East Africans.

The reason why Anton and Mars were able to see black people before was thanks to the place they came to. The West can be said to be the last gathering place of black people in East Africa, but in these years, they have been turned into a rare species in East Africa.

Mars said leisurely, "I remember that a few years ago, you could still see black engineering teams in many places. This should be the first time we have seen black people in the past year, and there are so many of them. And it seems that they are probably not young."

The black people in the car were obviously old and frail, with relatively thin bodies, as if they were malnourished, but in fact they were suffering from premature aging due to their old age and excessive labor intensity.

In recent years, with the improvement of productivity in East Africa and the further development of agriculture, the excess grain output has meant that the food of East African blacks is not very bad, and has even been improved.

However, this improvement in food cannot offset aging and high-intensity work, so it is naturally impossible for black people to appear stronger.

The eyesight of East Africans in this era was generally good, so Anton and Mars could clearly see the white hair on the black people in the vehicle even though they were several meters away.

Because of racial characteristics, even if black people's 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 head, which appear more eye-catching against the black skin.

"These black people look very old. If they are transported to Farta at this time, they are probably going to be shipped overseas!" Mars guessed.

Although the East African governments were extremely sensitive about the black slave groups under their rule, they did not keep any information to themselves.

Therefore, most East African citizens are well aware of how the East African government treats black people, which is to keep the land but not the people. In fact, in the early years, East African blacks were one of the main sources of slave trade in the international market.

It can be said that East Africa extended the timeline of the world's large-scale slave trade to the end of the 19th century, when even West Africa had openly banned the slave trade.

Of course, this is related to the changes in the world's population structure. Over the past hundreds of years, the Americas have been greatly developed and there is no shortage of white population. Naturally, there is no need to purchase labor on a large scale from black Africa.

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 a 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, which is probably not much less than West Africa, where the largest number of black people are distributed in the world. In this case, selling black slaves from Africa to America is completely unnecessary.

In the last century, the fundamental reason why East Africa was able to engage in the slave trade was that the East African government subsidized slave ships and slave traders, which made the East African version of the slave trade completely unprofitable. This kind of "charity" slave trade was obviously impossible for the profit-seeking European slave traders to do so.

Furthermore, the colonies of European countries have also undergone tremendous changes. In the past, the focus of Europe's colonies was on the American continent, and several traditional colonial powers once had vast colonies in America.

Today, the colonial focus of European countries has shifted to West Africa and Asia. However, West Africa and Asia are not America like they were hundreds of years ago. These two regions have never lacked population.

The most typical example is India. If the population density of American Indians was half that of India, Europeans would probably not have to transport black slaves from Africa all the way to plantations in America. After all, the slave trade also requires costs.

Mars said: "Although it is undeniable that black slaves have made important contributions to the development of the empire, I also agree with the firm attitude of the imperial government. Leaving these blacks in East Africa will only cause hidden dangers in the future. This is the case in American society today, so we cannot follow the old path of the United States."

East African governments have always taken the United States as an example when it comes to public opinion on whether black people should stay or go. After all, the United States is now the world's largest black country, and unrestrained black people have caused a huge number of social problems in American society.

Although the black issue in the United States has not yet affected the interests of white Americans due to their low status, this trend has become increasingly obvious.

The influence of blacks on the dark side of American society is becoming increasingly profound. A large number of grassroots gang leaders are recruited from the black community. As time goes by, blacks will definitely become a profound social problem in American society in the future, unless the US government changes its attitude towards blacks now, which is obviously impossible.

Anton said: "In short, I definitely don't want the country to keep black people. I don't want to give black people in my country equal treatment. I'm afraid most people think the same way. In this case, the hatred between the Empire and the black community will naturally not be eliminated. If we learn from the United States' practice after the Civil War and give them national status, it will only bring disaster to them."

The exploitation of black people in East Africa can be said to be deep-rooted, so it is impossible for East Africa to live in peace with the black community. Anton also does not think that he can be magnanimous enough to get rid of narrow-minded thinking and put the black slaves at the bottom of the contempt chain in East African society on the same footing as himself.

Mars also said: "I support your view that it is quite difficult to educate black people. After all, they lack a civilized history and cannot integrate into modern society."

"You can see this by looking at the current situation of black people in the United States and other American countries. Now black people in America are basically equated with criminals. For these black people, the best place for them is to return to the prairie and play 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 blacks is obviously too old to be sold as slaves to America, so the government's treatment of them is probably as you said, releasing them back to the grasslands, but the grasslands of West Africa."

There are traces of how East Africa deals with black people. As long as they do not die in East Africa, their fate is to be exiled to other parts of the world. In the past, it was America and West Africa, but now it can only be West Africa.

As Anton said, the black people in East Africa are no longer young. It is impossible for them to be sold as slaves to other countries as labor. It is also impossible for East Africa to be responsible for their retirement.

Therefore, the final destination of these blacks is predictable, which can only be the relatively chaotic West African region. Although that is where the colonies of European countries are located, European countries now do not have the energy to care about the "population garbage" that East Africa throws into West Africa.

(End of this chapter)