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This story is awful, but just a drop in the bucket.
Best estimate is that over 1.8 million Africans died just in transit across the Atlantic.
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SSG Robert Mark Odom
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Thanks for sharing that most interesting story of the slave ship the Zong. When I was reading it I had to wonder whether or not some of those people that were described as chattel where ancestors of mine.
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That is a most difficult thought to have to comprehend. Any way you look at it, it was people who were murdered, not 'chattel'. SSG Robert Mark Odom
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SSG Robert Mark Odom
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SGT (Join to see) Thank you for understanding.
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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Terrible piece of history brother David
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