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Re:Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave ... by ComputerGuru on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:37AM (#17807266)
> It was the industrial scale treatment of millions of human beings as cattle for over 300 years.

Actually, in pretty much every developing society cattle are considered prized ownership and are treated well and cared for. Farmers with thousands of sheep or cows still try to avoid the loss of even one.

Slaves were treated far worse than that. Perhaps like some used trash you were selling to a junkyard.

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Re:Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave ... by sirk390 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:56AM (#17807333)
>Slaves were treated far worse than that. Perhaps like some used trash you were selling to a junkyard.

How can you know that? Do you have book references or something?

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Re:Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave ... by lostlogin on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:08AM (#17807660)
The link gives me this impression. The death rate alone suggests this.
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Re:Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave ... by lostlogin on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:26PM (#17812327)
The practice of killing slaves and claiming the insurance payout was eventually banned, but is exactly what you say didn’t happen.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zong_massacre

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Slave_Ship

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Re:Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave ... by speleding on Thursday August 23, 2018 @03:56AM (#17825406)
Those are incidents, and still show that the slave traders are acting in their own self-interest. It is not realistic to think that insurance companies would stand for this if it was standing practice.
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