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It is possible to say that the profits to be made from the slave-trade brought out the worst in many of the organisers, including some unscrupulous ship's captains who threw slaves overboard when the rations ran out.

It was when stories like this got back to Britain that the laws against the slave-trade eventually got through Parliament.

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