re: #43 Emmmieg Was looking at a slave ships’ roster of dead.. Researching a slave who later changed his name to “Charlie Smith”.
Thinking to myself,”who could sell a boy ten years old to be a slave? Why would a person do such a thing?

Then I realized. Everybody was dying. Get the kid out of here where at least he will have a chance.
Charlie Smith did live. Supposedly to be 130 years old. My mother knew the morgue deener who assisted the autopsy. He said he could not verify the age, but he was the oldest person he ever assisted on, based on the yellowness of the fat.

That town in (now)Liberia had a lot of deaths. Some died before they set sail. Many died en route. Charlie said the ship was decorated with fritters hung about like balloons. Many didn’t even notice the ship set sail. That implies they targeted children.
I can only go so far looking into this before I get upset and have to quit.