They ran out of water. So they started throwing living people overboard. Women, children, one baby. Then they sued the insurance company for not getting compensation for the deceased ones.
130 to 140 Africans, over three days, into the Atlantic.
Not a mutiny.
Not a storm.
A calculation.
Then they reached Jamaica, sold whoever was left, and the owner filed an insurance claim.
For the people they drowned.
Then comes the weird part. The first court treated it like lost cargo.
The judge compared it to throwing horses overboard.
That’s how the world found out what was happening on those ships.
Not because someone confessed.
Because greed put it on the record.
Siddharth Kara just said it on Rogan: Britain paid the slave owners a fortune. Taxpayers finished the Bill in 2015.
£20 million.
Forty percent of the entire national budget.
Then they borrowed the money.
British taxpayers were still paying that loan in 2015.
Not 1850.
2015.
People who never owned a slave, never saw a plantation, were still on the hook for compensating men who treated human beings as property.
The Gladstones cashed one of the biggest checks.
Tens of millions in today’s money.
On top of the fortune they already extracted.
The enslaved got five more years of unpaid “apprenticeship.”
Then Britain just replaced them with Indian indentured labor and kept the machine running.
That’s the part that doesn’t make the museum plaque.
Mike Tyson never showers after a Fight
It's been great to witness Mikes climb to the top. His fall from grace, and get back up to be a wiser man. He is an inspiration and a true American treasure.
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100% of our income is in dollars and that's why we pay people in dollars, you will collect your dividends in dollars. By the 10th of October, even before the Refinery IPO closes, people will see our 9-month figures. The 6-month figures ($13.91 billion) we didn't work much in January and February.
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Did you know that, Walter Rodney exposed how europe became wealthy by impoverishing africa. he was assassinated before reaching his 39th birthday. That’s enough reason why you should read his book “How Europe Underdeveloped Africa”.
In the 1950s, Ella Fitzgerald was not allowed to play Hollywood's most popular nightclub, Mocambo, because of her race.
Marilyn Monroe, who was a big fan, called the owner & told him that if he booked Ella, Marilyn would be there every night - which guaranteed huge press coverage.
He booked Ella and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. Ella said, "After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn't know it."
A Brazilian farmer playfully calls out each cow’s name from his notebook, and the cows answer with distinct moos proof that daily routines have taught them to recognize their names.
Les Brown was abandoned at birth, failed fifth grade twice, and had nothing. Nike paid him to speak when they were losing to Reebok. Two years later they crossed $1 billion.
Bookmark & watch today, no matter what.