Slavery In Conrad's Heart Of Darkness

The talk of racism leads to the talk of slavery in various eras throughout history

and leading to the impact of this practice in the present era. What was slavery in the past

becomes as trafficking nowadays. Both of slavery and trafficking are trade components

because they are profitable and owned for people; slaves are bought and sold like any

commodity and they cannot even enjoy of their freedoms as other people. Is it

permissible for anyone to deprive someone else his freedoms and rights to live his life

with dignity, security and to exercise all his rights and freedoms freely? Of course no one

has the right to harm someone else and desolate his human dignity and freedoms. Once

Omar Bin Al-Khattab who is one of the companions who were in the time of the Prophet

In the novel of Heart of Darkness, Conrad Explains to the readers of the novel

about the situation of the Congo and the terrible acts that done by the Europeans during

1 UNESCO Constitution, the Declaration on Race and Racial Prejudice; article 1.

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their colonization for the Congo, and he also explains and indicates to the evil and the

greed in the nature of humanity through the characters of the novel such as Kurtz and

Marlow. Joseph Conrad uses in his novel a lot of offensive and ugly terms and many

derogatory that create the differences that are not existed in the world between people,

but peoples themselves create these differences between each other. Does the existence of

these terms in the novel show that the author is racist or is it just a clarification and a

reference to what happened with the African people in Congo? Every word, every action

and every event in the novel contains racism that shows or provokes the feelings