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.