John Bierman > Quotes

“Why a sooty-faced negro from a distant land should be an element of disturbance between white brothers was a puzzle to me.”
― John Bierman, Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley

“The poor American settler, the Irish employee, the German-Jew storekeeper, in a brief time grew as liable to bursts of deadly passion, or fits of cold-blooded malignity, as the Virginia aristocrat. In New Orleans, and other great cities, the social rule was to give and take, to assert an opinion and hear it contradicted without resort to lethal weapons, but in Arkansas to refute a statement was tantamount to giving the lie direct, and was likely to be followed by an instant appeal to the revolver or bowie.”
― John Bierman, Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley

“Oh, for once I was beginning to know the real truth! Man was born for slaughter!”
― John Bierman, Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley

“slave dhows coming and slave dhows going away...On visiting the slave market, I found about 300 slaves exposed for sale...The teeth are examined, the cloth lifted to examine the lower limbs, and a stick thrown for a slave to bring, and thus exhibit his paces. Some are dragged through the crowd by hand and the price called incessantly...”[145]”
― John Bierman, Dark Safari: The Life Behind the Legend of Henry Morton Stanley