Word: slaving
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...main distinctions are a disdain for euphemism and a bitter black perspective. Characters refer to each other as "black bastards" and "niggers," "sons of bitches" and "mothers." White employers are parodied behind their backs, and there is recurrent talk of revolution. Rails one black domestic: "Wait till the slave maids and housekeepers take to the streets-and them bitches have to do their own dishes...
...world heavyweight boxing championship, the two burly contenders tiptoe to mid-ring and embrace with consummate passion! A new luxury liner turns out to be propelled by a gang of seminude galley slavettes, who bend to the oar under a whip cracked by everyone's favorite sado-maso slave queen, Raquel Welch...
...level, Maclnnes is still knowledgeably documenting his casebook on people-exploiting-people. For beneath the mock-replica Tom Jones style, Westward to Laughter is a kind of quick history of the slave trade-a flashback, so to speak, from Maclnnes' novel of black London, City of Spades. Shooting his imitation-lace cuffs and pointing angrily from today's ghetto back to the West Indies of the 1750s, Maclnnes says, in effect: here's where it all started...
Then it's time to jump ship and really get down to the business of degradation. By a simple plot twist, Alexander himself is made a plantation slave. Nor in his guided tour of slavery does Maclnnes neglect the white variety. Ex-Slave Alexander, on the run, finds refuge in a Caribbean brothel called Sans Regrets. Shades of Moll Flanders...
...only been in the last two centuries that the majority of people in civilized countries have claimed the privilege of being individuals. Formerly they were slave, peasant, laborer, even artisan, but not person. It is clear that this revolution, a triumph for justice in many ways . . . has also introduced new kinds of grief and misery, and so far on the broadest scale, it has not been altogether a success . . . For a historian of great interest, but for one aware of the suffering it is appalling. Hearts that get no real wage, souls that find no nourishment. Falsehoods, unlimited. Desire, unlimited...