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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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