A 19th-century engraving of African captives yoked and walking to the coast for sale. Everett Historical/Shutterstock. All Rights Reserved.
Take up the White Man's burden,
Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile,
to serve your captives' need; To wait in heavy harness,
On fluttered folk and wild-
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-devil and half-child.
—Rudyard Kipling, 1899
