16 The Wine-Dark Sea - Libro della tutto

Patrick O'Brian The Wine-Dark Sea
'Anything at all is better than slavery,' cried
Sam with a surprising degree of passion in so
large and calm a man. 'Anything at all – wandering
diseased and three parts starved in the
mountains, roasted, frozen, naked, hunted by
dogs, like the wretched Maroons I sought out
in Jamaica.'
'You too feel very strongly about slavery?'
'Oh indeed and indeed I do. The West Indies
were bad enough, but Brazil was worse by far.
As you know, I worked for what seemed an
eternity among the black slaves there.'
'I remember it well. That was one of the many
reasons that I looked forward so to seeing you
again in Peru.' He looked attentively at Sam;
but Sam's mind was still in Brazil and in his
deep voice, deeper than Jack's, he went on,
'There may be a tolerable domestic slavery –
who has not seen something like it in slave-