James Stout

Stubbs really continues to fucking ruin everything he does.

Should we get water?

No, let's just kill some more guys.

Yeah, that's fine.

Sorry, kill some more women and children.

Yeah.

Fuck.

So this case, which had been rushed through the first time, on second viewing seemed much more disturbing, even to skeptics like Mansfield.

The dark question that hovered over the whole proceeding was this.

If not out of necessity, why would Stubbs and the crew have thrown 130 people overboard?

And the answer that people kept thinking was probably the obvious one is this.

After a too long journey on a slave ship crammed with twice its maximum occupancy, without enough food or enough water and disease endemic, many of the enslaved people on board were too sick and visibly ailing to fetch much of a price at auction.

So if you just kill them, the insured value is higher than what they would sell for.

We don't know that that's what was going on, but this is what people start talking about.

And it's not an unreasonable proposition.

Yeah, no, it's not.

It lines up.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But everything else they've done is ghastly.