Hannay, David, 1853-1934 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 342
ave ships. The immense proportion of theloss in these cargoes of human cattle was one of the reasonswhy the various syndicates—Genoese, Portuguese, French,and English—who took an Asiento from the Spanish THE SLAVER 301 Government for the supply of slaves, failed to make theprofits they expected.… … (b) the hold of a slaver. of blacks, and look to make their profit by delivering themin good health. As it was, the trader had to discount notonly the negroes who died, but the sickly survivors, whomhe was forced to sell at a loss. It would have paid himbetter to be more humane. The answer was that…
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