Thursday, January 7, 2010

Slave Merchant

Someone who literally buys and sells other people.

“I do not have to tell you there has been a disappointing retreat of progress in recent times, whatever it is we call progress, especially disappointing because of the little we have had since the Emancipation. There’s something cursed, it seems to me, about a country where men have owned men as property. The stink of that corruption never escapes the soul, and it is the stink of future evil.”

Bernard Malamud, The Fixer (1966)

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