James Stout
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He scrapes together a meager living for the next few years and he dies age 60 in 1787.
In his will, he gave his son George all my wearing apparel, which wasn't much use to the boy who never made it back from Africa and died there earlier that same year, age 19.
Oh, Stubbsy!
One more at the end.
One more real piece of shit move.
Leave his kid his clothes.
His old man clothes.
He literally doesn't give his kids any money.
I don't think he has much, but he's like, I already paid to raise them.
Why would I give them money?
Paid to ship that one kid off to Africa.
Jesus, what a piece of shit.
Yeah, what a turd.
Find his grave and piss on it if you're in the region.
Yeah, if you can find it, pee on it.
William Gregson, unfortunately, lives until 1800 when he dies, age 79, after having financed more than 150 slave voyages that tore nearly 60,000 Africans from their homes.
Roughly 16% of these people died en route.
Gregson died wealthy and respected, having never been called to account for his crimes against humanity, which is a bummer.
Yeah, that sucks.
I'm sure his descendants aren't still rich today.