Will London Get Even Now? Will Any Of Us?

Once the British outlawed slavery in the U.S. colonies, many colonists felt they'd been left holding the bag from the ships and contracts they'd invested in before the prohibition became law.
So they sailed happily to the west coast of Africa again anyway. They claimed they were bringing
back lots of goods. This went on for a while.
The colonials insured everything on every ship from stem to stern with Lloyd's Of  London Insurance Co.
Then, they loaded their ships with kidnapped people anyway.
They chained the people together with heavy pieces of blacksmith's metal.
When they were a safe enough distance from the African shore, they dumped every man, woman, and
child into the ocean to drown fighting for air- screaming for a motive, begging for life.
After all, though, if British ships caught ships with slaves on board, each and every one of the captain and crew would be hung on board then and there.
What were they supposed to do instead of traffic in these ventures? Lose money?
Massachusetts, Wall Street, and the southern colonial planters had become as rich as Crocus in the
slave trade.
Furthermore, there were still some Africans on the west coast of Africa.
There was more money yet to be made, don't you see?
Maybe now all our museums will go bust, and London will get some of its money back.
Christie's can buy all worthy items from The Detroit Institute of Arts cheap, then sell them high.
Maybe when London gets somewhat avenged, so do some Detroiters whose ancestors paid a heavy
price so that our colonies could cheat a London insurance company.
So how did the planters get slaves after the trade was outlawed? That story may be even more brutal
than the one we've told here today. Suffice it to say for now...
The arc of the moral universe is long indeed.