Robert Evans

That's like a potentially dying from loss of blood amount of lashes.

Yeah, and it's because he's trying to make an example of him, right?

So Newton's not happy after this.

He makes plans to murder the captain and then kill himself, but he never goes through with it.

Instead, he manages to use his clout to transfer to his dad's clout to transfer to a different boat, the Pegasus, which is a slave ship working the ship.

doing the slave trade thing, right?

So this is how he starts working on a slave boat, but he doesn't like it immediately.

It proves a worse fit than the Harwich at first, because Newton is by this point an angry atheist, and his main hobby when they're not working is making fun of everyone else's religion and then trying to convince them to commit sins, right?

And this does not make him popular with the crew.

Yeah, I can imagine.

People...

People don't like it when you're stuck in a boat together and you keep calling them stupid for believing in whatever they believe in.

Yeah.

So he gets left in West Africa.

It's a little unclear.

Do they fully strand him or is there is partly me?

It seems to have been somewhat mutual.

Dunn's book suggests Newton makes a there's a passenger on board is a slave dealer named Amos Clow.

And Newton's like, shit, being a slave dealer, I could just get rich, you know, and then I could go home and I can marry that teenager.

Right.