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Baldwin:
Cinque describes the cold-blooded murder of a significant portion of the people on board the Tecora. Mr Holabird sees this as a paradox. Do you, sir? Captain Fitzgerald:
Often when slavers are intercepted, or believe they may be, they simply throw all their prisoners overboard and thereby rid themselves of the evidence of their crime. Baldwin:
Drown hundreds of people? Captain Fitzgerald:
Yes. Holabird:
It hardly seems a lucrative business to me, this slave trading. Going to all that trouble, rounding everybody up, only to throw them all overboard. Captain Fitzgerald:
No, it's very lucrative. Baldwin:
If only we could corroborate Cinque's story somehow with evidence of some kind. Captain Fitzgerald:
The inventory. If you look, there's a notation made on May tenth, correcting the number of slaves on board, reducing their number by fifty. Baldwin:
What does that mean? Captain Fitzgerald:
Well, if you look at it in conjunction with Cinque's testimony, I would say that it means this: the Tecora crew had greatly underestimated the amount of provisions required for their journey, and solved the problem by throwing fifty people overboard
Cinque describes the cold-blooded murder of a significant portion of the people on board the Tecora. Mr Holabird sees this as a paradox. Do you, sir? Captain Fitzgerald:
Often when slavers are intercepted, or believe they may be, they simply throw all their prisoners overboard and thereby rid themselves of the evidence of their crime. Baldwin:
Drown hundreds of people? Captain Fitzgerald:
Yes. Holabird:
It hardly seems a lucrative business to me, this slave trading. Going to all that trouble, rounding everybody up, only to throw them all overboard. Captain Fitzgerald:
No, it's very lucrative. Baldwin:
If only we could corroborate Cinque's story somehow with evidence of some kind. Captain Fitzgerald:
The inventory. If you look, there's a notation made on May tenth, correcting the number of slaves on board, reducing their number by fifty. Baldwin:
What does that mean? Captain Fitzgerald:
Well, if you look at it in conjunction with Cinque's testimony, I would say that it means this: the Tecora crew had greatly underestimated the amount of provisions required for their journey, and solved the problem by throwing fifty people overboard
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Cinque describes the cold blooded murder
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of a significant portion of the people on board the Tecora
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Mr Holabird sees this as a paradox Do you sir
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Often when slavers are intercepted or believe they may be
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they simply throw all their prisoners overboard
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and thereby rid themselves of the evidence of their crime
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Drown hundreds of people
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Yes
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It hardly seems a lucrative business to me this slave trading
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Going to all that trouble rounding everybody up
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only to throw them overboard
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Movie Summary
In 1839, the revolt of Mende captives aboard a Spanish owned ship causes a major controversy in the United States when the ship is captured off the coast of Long Island. The courts must decide whether the Mende are slaves or legally
