Reivew Of Conrad's "Heart Of Darkness"

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to perform.
Prior to 1807, the Europeans directly enslaved the Africans. After
1807, Britain, and eventually most European countries, banned the slave
trade. However, this did not stop the Eldorado Exploring Expedition, whose
members Marlow described as "reckless without hardihood, greedy without
audacity, and cruel without courage," from using natives as forced labor
for their benefit--the classic definition of slavery.
Europeans were also extremely distrustful of the natives. They
were often accused of crimes because of the color of their skin. At the
beginning of the novel, a French ship is firing blindly into the woods
because "[apparently] the French had one of their wars going on
thereabouts." Later in the novel, at the Central Station, a native is
accused of causing the fire that engulfed the European's storage shed. He
is beaten savagely; later he ran away from the station.
The Europeans, aside from physically exploiting the Africans, also
exploited them ...

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