Just discovered something fairly horrifying; apparently in the early 1800’s, there was a slave ship that traveled to Jamaica and picked up 442 people to be slaves (who were far more than their ship was supposed to carry); the captain lost his way on the way back, and with dwindling food and water supplies, they had to…
Well, this is where insurance comes in: apparently if slaves died of disease, insurance didn’t cover this, however if slaves ‘had’ to be ‘jettisoned’ (thrown overboard) to save the ship, their lives were covered by insurance.
Those murderers threw 132 people overboard, and the court case resulting from this is believed to have played a part in abolishing slavery a short while later.
Damn; honestly it’s disgusting when you hear white people today talk about how black people should be grateful to white people for having ended slavery; it took black victims giving having their lives TAKEN AWAY for slavery to be abolished.
Something similar also happened in the Salish Sea when people (usually Chinese immigrants) wanted to he moved across the US/Canadian border. The smugglers would transport them bound and weighted and if there was any potential risk of attention from the authorities they would just throw everyone over the side.