A week later I was on ship outward bound for Port Said. I applied for the job and they signed me on. A change of scene, the chance for a little excitement. I had only a faint idea where Lebanon was, but the idea appealed to me. It seems there is an American University there, in Beirut, and they were looking for a laboratory assistant. For a while I was just drifting from one thing to another when I heard through a friend about a job in Lebanon. I had been with the Fifth Army in Italy and had gone to school on the GI Bill after the war. When I first came to Lebanon I had never heard of modern slavery. The prices run from $570 to $1,I50 for men. It’s called the ‘Ebony Market,’ a secret business that every year deals in thousands of helpless people. In Yemen and Saudi Arabia slavery is a flourishing business. Economic and Social Committee knows that isn’t true. Anyone who has looked at the reports of the U. In the United States we like to think of the world as a civilized place, where things like torture and slavery are a part of the past. Places where there are only the very poor and the very rich, where people can he sold like cattle. We forget that there are parts of the world where people live just as they did 1,000 years ago. My great-grandfather was a slave, but I know I never think of it any more than an American of Russian descent worries about his grandfather being a serf. Most American Negroes, like myself, are only three or four generations removed from slavery. I was being sold on the block as a slave.
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But this wasn’t history – it was happening right now in the year 1954, and it was happening to me. The whole scene seemed unreal and ancient like an illustration from Arabian Nights, a slave market right out of the dark ages, complete with smoking lamps, Arab buyers and chained rows of slaves. A hard-faced Arab in the front row leaned forward and prodded my leg muscles, the way a livestock buyer would examine a horse. The auctioneer’s harsh voice ground into my ears as he addressed the prospective buyers.
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I received a blow on the head for my clumsiness and was barely conscious of being dragged forward. The sharp edge of the platform cut into my ankles and I stumbled and almost fell. I tried to turn aside, but the guard behind me twisted the chain until the handcuffs bit into my wrists.