I have read this book and the quote in pic is fake. I read the 1958 edition.
Here are some of his stories from his book.
>In the 19th century, white traders used to sell cans of corned beef to the blacks. After doing this for several years, they learned that the blacks believed that the cans contained human meat. The blacks were not troubled by this belief because they were cannibals. They continued purchasing the cans of corned beef and consuming the contents even though they thought the meat was the flesh of dead slaves. p25
>Some blacks were sold into slavery by their own tribes for the crime of using magic to cause the misfortunes of others.
>Some blacks sold their own children into slavery in the hope that they would be taken to a white man country and given three meals a day (so great was the poverty in central Africa before the arrival of whites).
>The author encountered a case in which a slave, who was prone to criminality, refused the gift of freedom, because he knew that if he remained in slavery he could commit crimes with impunity and that his owner would have to pay the fines on his behalf. p33
>There were several other cases of voluntary slavery for various reasons. p32
>In the early days a white trader gave the blacks a written note with a list of supplies he required and instructed them to take it to a trade station that he had a contract with. The white man at the trade station read the note and then gave them the supplies. The blacks were amazed and thought that the writing was a magical incantation and demanded to be taught how to write so that they too could trick the trade station into giving them free stuff.
>At one point a white trader showed the natives a gramophone and the blacks turned on him and he had to flee for his life. Later the whites learned that when the blacks believed that the white men had imprisoned the spirits of their ancestors inside the box using magic.
>Some black women possessed a taboo that if their first child was a boy, then either they or the child must die. Schweitzer witnessed a case in which a womaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
