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Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Narrator) This is the story of a world\Nwhose borders and territories
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were drawn by the slave trade,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where violence, subjugation \Nand profit imposed their own routes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This criminal system shaped our history\Nand our world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On São Tomé, the Portuguese\Ninvented an economic model
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with unprecedented profitability:\Nthe sugar plantation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (English voiceover) This was \Nthe first black colony,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first slave society.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (English voiceover) We witnessed\Nthe marriage of the black men
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with sugar cane.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (Narrator) In the 16th century,\Nother European powers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were eager to follow their model.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their greed would plunge \Nan entire continent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into chaos and violence.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nearly 13 million Africans were cast onto\Nnew slavery routes to the new world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where the English, the French,\Nand the Dutch hoped to become wealthy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,immeasurably wealthy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Intense music with strong bass drum beat)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because the Caribbean\Nhas similar climatic features to São Tomé,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it eventually became\Nthe principal crossroads
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the slave trader's routes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For people in the western world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these islands are today\Nassociated with vacation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guadeloupe offers tourists\Na dream destination.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sunshine and pristine nature,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rekindling myths of a lost paradise.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Holidaymakers tend to confine themselves\Nto the beaches of Le Gosier, Sainte-Anne,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and Saint François.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as this sign indicates,\Nthey are all too close
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to another side of the islands heritage
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was anything but a paradise.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just a few meters away from the bathers\Nis a burial site
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where countless skeletons were discovered.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Between 500 and 1,000 graves\Nare still buried beneath the sand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Raisins Clairs beach is one of 15 \Nslave cemeteries that have been excavated.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,15, among the 1,000\Nthat exist in the Caribbean.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,89 skeletons have been exhumed\Nby French archaeological research experts.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Judging by the state of the bones,\Nthey concluded that these men and women
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had not reached the age of 30.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,By the time of their death,\Nthe toll from working on the plantations
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had so deformed their bodies\Nthat they seemed more like 75 year olds.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These people were human guinea pigs\Nfor the sugar experiment,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the collateral damage of an unprecedented\Ntrade war: The Sugar War.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,74% of all slaves carried off, were carried\Noff because of sugar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to understand the slave trade, you\Njust need to know about sugar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sugar proved more addictive\Nthan pepper or cinnamon.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,From the 17th century onward, Europeans\Ncraved this rare and expensive commodity
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In London, Amsterdam, and Paris,\Nsugar fever was rampant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prompting a new generation of adventurers\Nto go to any extremes to get it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Shipowners and fitters,\Nmerchants and pirates,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all knew that to produce sugar,\Nyou needed a lot of slaves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,John Hawkins was one of these\Nnew entrepreneurs
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for whom profit reigned supreme.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The English privateer was a pioneer\Nin understanding that a fortune
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be made by shipping Black captives\Nto the New World.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the mid 16th century,\Nhe convinced Queen Elizabeth I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to lend him a ship, The Jesus of Lubec.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For the expedition,\NHawkins conspicuously set the tone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by choosing a trussed up Black man\Non his emblem.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (Male speaker) "I do confirm\Nto your highness
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"that I will bring home 40,000 marks\Nwithout any offense of the least
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to any of Your Highnesses,\Nallies, or friends.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I will conduct this enterprise\Nand turn it to the benefit
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"of your whole realm,\Nwith Your Highness' consent.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"The voyage I propose\Nis to load negroes in Guinea
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"and sell them in the West Indies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"in truck of pearls, gold, and emeralds\Nthat I will bring back in abundance."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (Narrator) 1620,\Na century after sugar plantations
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were introduced in Brazil.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Atlantic became the battleground\Nfor the sugar war.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,England, The Netherlands and France wanted\Nto break Spain and Portugal's hegemony.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Caribbean,\Nthe Dutch took control
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Curaçao, Sint Eustatius,\Nand Saint Martin.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The French: Guadeloupe, Martinique,\NGrenada and Saint-Domingue.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The English occupied The Bahamas, Jamaica,\NAntigua, Barbados and Dominica.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only Cuba and Puerto Rico\Nremained under Spanish rule.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After the extermination\Nof the native Arawak people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first sugar canes flourished\Non this fertile land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- The Caribbean became a space of conquest\Nfor the Europeans very early on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Really, it was the first place\Nthat Columbus landed in the new world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first place that the Spanish\Nbegan to search for gold,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the first place they began\Nto enslave the Indians.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So they were thoroughgoing\Ncolonial spaces
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,created by design of Europ,ean planters\Nand imperial policy makers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,\Nand for their profit, right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There aren't so many places where you can\Ncompletely overlay a territory like that.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, in some ways, the Caribbean\Nis the space where you find
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the purest of Colonial territories.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where the masters of the space\Nactually get to create the space
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to suit their own needs.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (Narrator) In Guadalupe,\Nevery plot of land,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every single square inch of ground,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is connected to this violent\Nand deeply rooted history.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today, all that is left of sugar war\Nis a field of ruins.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Of the 250 sugar refineries active\Nin the late 19th century,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only two remain in operation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 2017, experts from France's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,National Institute of Preventive\NArcheological Research
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exhumed the remains of the Saint Jacques\Nresidence and sugar refinery
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Anse-Bertrand:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A mill, stock rooms,\Nand three rows of so-called "negro huts"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where hundreds of slaves\Nwere penned up together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In this brutal work camp, human beings\Nwere but one tool among others.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each became a mechanized, emaciated body\Nconsumed by work until their final breath.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- Both the time in which the slaves\Nwere digging the cane holes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the times in which\Nthey were harvesting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were really the peak of the labor\Non a plantation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could almost see the slaves\Nwasting away
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they were digging these cane holes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the work was so strenuous and\Nthey were getting fed so poorly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You found women in all of the gangs,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often times doing the hardest,\Ndirtiest labor on the plantation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alongside the men, or even before the men.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one of the things that means,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when you find young women doing\Nthis quite debilitating labor,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is that the birth rates are very low\Nand the mortality rates,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the infant mortality\Nrate is shockingly high.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the mid-18th century,\Npeople talked about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,9 out of 10 infants born \Nto enslaved Jamaican women dying, right,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within the first year.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, there's no way in which the plantation\Ncan reproduce itself
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under those kinds of conditions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (English voiceover) The plantation\Nwere managed by overseers
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who saw the slaves\Nin purely functional terms.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was an absolute exploitation\Nof the workforce.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was a very particular society
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the average rate\Nof life expectancy on a plantation
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was extremely low,\Nabout 8 to 10 years after arriving.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (English voiceover)\NThe logic of the slave system
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was one where the availability\Nof the workforce had to be absolute.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And for this, man was conceived\Nas an accessory of the land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He appeared as such in house inventories.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slaves are listed next to records\Nfor livestock or manufacturing implements.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the archaic aspect which was\Nput to use by a capitalist system,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and which largely met\Nmarket supply and demand,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with its fluctuations, needs,\Nand competition - free competition.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,- (Narrator) The sugar plantations\Nsaw slavery enter a new era.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The stronger the demand for sugar,\Nthe more the slave trade expanded,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the more the slave traders\Nsought support from banks
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to finance their expeditions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,London is one of the oldest centers\Nof global finance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The city of London was the first\Nto create a commodities exchange,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to develop credit markets\Nand to issue banknotes on a massive scale.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without the invention\Nof a centralized banking system,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the explosion of the slave trade\Nin the 17th century
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would not have been possible.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Preparing for a slave expedition\Nwas expensive,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and having a financial arsenal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gave England a decisive advantage\Nover its competitors.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've got to remember that the State is getting a tremendous amount of revenue from the plantation complex,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they had a very strong, vested interest in the slave trade.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you had gone to the king of England in 1680
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and said, "Look, I'm gonna give you a choice.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"You can either have these 13 colonies\Nin North America,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"or you can have this one little island called Barbados."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You would have taken Barbados\Nin a split second
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the sugar revenues.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is something that's going to persist as a very important interest
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for European states up until the very end of slavery.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To support the sugar war,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the city lent money on a colossal scale.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the midst of these steel and glass buildings,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the two pillars of the English economy that financed the slave trade
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are still prominent on the London skyline.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the heart of the financial district is the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,venerable bank of England,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the world's first central bank.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A couple of blocks away is Britain's most powerful \Ninsurance company,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the prestigious Lloyd's of London.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Atlantic slave traders had to take on heavy debts\Nto charter their ships.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Without an insurance company, \Nmost would risk ruin on their first expedition.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The slave traders made investments as if playing a game of poker.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The risks were high, but if successful, \Nthe return would far outweigh any other type of investment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Insurers like Lloyd's had everything to gain by participating in this game of chance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A successful expedition could yield up to three times\Nthe initial stake.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the Lloyd's archives,\Nlittle evidence remains
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the profits of insuring these high-risk expeditions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most accounting records were lost in a fire in 1838,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the same year that slavery was abolished in the British Caribbean.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ports had to adapt to this initial scramble for Africa and the Caribbean.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In London, Blackwall became the slave trade's principal wharf.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All manner of goods were sold here.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Precious fabrics, jewels, porcelain, weapons,