With the (hexagrams 17)

- slave true record of history

[text]

(against) under shock (1) : yuan heng, her virginity, and no blame

Ninth: officer has chongqing (2), the zhen ji.Go out to pay active (3).

Lost LiuEr: boy (4), (5) her husband.

June 3rd: husband, kid.In (6) has obtained benefit in their virginity

: over there, her virginity.Have a fight in a way, to Ming (7), why to blame.

Zhou: fu jia (8), George.

Only on 6: subjected, from d (9).The king used the huntsman in xishan (10).

【 notes 】

(1) is the hexagrams title.Along with the mean obedience, along.All the contents of the hexagrams about businessmen go out to do business, and the situation of the slave trade.

(2) : the ancient "pavilion", refers to the guest house, hotel.

(3) pay: communication, here refers to each other and help each other.

(4) the kid: here refers to the age of slaves.

(5) the husband: this refers to adult slaves.

(6) is obtained: it means hope to profit.

(7) : it is used as the "au", means to enter into a covenant.

(8) : a tiny country in the zhou dynasty name, also known as "jia".

(9) d: bundle.

King (10) : refers to king wen of zhou.Mount xishan: refers to the disambiguation.

[translation]

Along with the hexagrams: prosperous, auspicious divination, or disaster.

Changes happened in the ninth: hotel, but for geely.Go out each other and help each other is good.

LiuEr: caught the young slave, adult slavesescape.

June 3rd: caught adult slaves, young slave ran away.Go out together after the business is for the sake of profit.Ask for inhabitation get good omen.

: businesses together go out is for the sake of profit, the q omen.Van captured on the road, the covenant with each other, no evil.

Zhou: who captured jia, giovanni cobolli gigli.

Six: the prisoner in custody, tightly bound.Mountain king wen of zhou in the disambiguation for a people sacrifice offering them as gods

"Reading"

Sticks out of the business of business is the slave trade, which reveal a slave of two sources: one is the commercial business, one isThe warThe captives.At the same time, we also know then also to sacrifice to the gods in the slave's life.

These let we immediately think of at least two points.First is to use the main point of view of modern humanity, trafficking and killing slaves were brutal and shocking, is incredible to see today.Followed by the western colonists fought the humanitarian banner in modem history of the slave trade, destroyed the bloody history of slave (French writer merry beautiful novel tower mungo and the American writer Mrs Stowe's novel uncle Tom's cabin, have really cut description).In dehua history point of view, can be completely certain that slavery is the dark, savage and cruel, bloody in human history, the ugly of a page, well-deserved.

However, another view can also be used to look at history, that is the attitude of historical materialism in the righteousness.From this perspective, slavery is inevitable in the process of human social history development.It is human material and spiritual civilization has made enormous contribution.The leading role of the driver, of course, not slave, but are they insulted and destroying slavery.This, the author is unexpected anyway.