Huh?

[Unregistered]

Actually, slavery within the British Empire and America had been abolished some decades before ERB wrote his first tale of Tarzan. The characters in the book reflect the popular thinking of the time- Africa the Dark Land, peopled by inferior races.<br>To judge the work by the social standards of today reflects only the same blind bigotry the reviewer attacks.

[curtis]

please, give me a freaking break.

[Kaldeko]

I don't think "the times" is any excuse. At the same time the abolishment of slavery was going on. It's not as if ERB is to be excused from judgement just because he wasn't outward-thinking enough to write something liberating/egalitarian. And whoever said that a variety of good and bad is shown is dead wrong. Point me to the intelligent black character in this book. The kindly or heroic one... That's right. Another silence in this book full of prejudice, fallacy and gaps.