Note 182 — Chapter XIX

So in Anglo-America every stranger has remarked that whilst the negro invariably chooses personal service, the American Indian, shrinking from it with loathing, affords hardly a single instance. In Africa, however, he has a good time of it. The author of “The Niger Expedition” (vol. i. p. 398), justly remarks that “domestic slavery in the negro’s native land is not more irksome than servitude in ours”—he might safely have said more. And it must be remembered, as Mungo Park stated in the last century, that paid service is unknown to the negro. Indeed, African languages ignore the word.