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[ElyrionX]

Where is our lord and savior Mandrake?

 

[Valhelm]

Cobra, look at this.

We have found slave ships. They seem elusive because unlike permanent Roman roads, ships do not have an infinite life-span. The vast majority of ships don't sink. After a hundred years or so, they are scrapped, and new ships are built with their wood and metal. We've found two slave shipwrecks (the Trouvadore and the Henrietta Marie), and they seem shabby because when ships are underwater for hundreds of years, they get eroded.

It's hard to find shipwrecks of any kind, because we don't really know where to look, and the ocean floor is incredibly vast. It took decades to find the huge, metal Titanic. Finding a small, rotted wooden slave ship is even more difficult. Not many wrecks of any kind have been found, and because most ships in the 1700s Caribbean were not slave ships, even fewer of those wrecks were used to transport kidnapped African people.

 

[Pollux]

OP, are you high?

 

[EdibleKnife]

Have you ever played Wind Waker?

Turns out Link stopping Ganondorf never happened

 

[Alucrid]

But it was UNDERWATER. How can you carry slaves like that?!

could be nagas (sanskrit for snake)

 

[Kurdel]

How old are you OP?

could be nagas

son of a bitch lol

 

[Pastry]

How long would you say a boat could cross the Atlantic with no motor, only by wind?

Like two or three months man. Pretty sure Columbus did it in three, unless you're saying he didn't exist.

 

[Staccat0]

I sincerely don't know what the op even means... but the title is funny so I am glad I came.

 

[Cat Party]

I'm in the same boat. I read the OP, didn't really help much.

Where's the physical boat though?

 

[Makonero]

That thing in the background? I bet it's not even a real boat.

And today I learned that homestead.com still exists.

I made my first website there!

 

[Cyan]

You guys.

You know how sometimes you say "lol" or :dead or whatever because you chuckled a bit? Well.

This thread literally made me hysterical.

It was that damn baseball gif that put me over the edge.

I'm... slowly recovering.

 

[Mysterious]

Turns out Link stopping Ganondorf never happened

E3 never happened. GAF doesn't exist.

Where am I right now??????

 

[cobragt4001]

A few months. Are you saying no one can sail the width of the Atlantic?

Were the slaves fed food and water and if so where did the supplies go if there were hundreds of them packed on the ship?

 

[Zona]

OK... I just want to see if I understand before I contribute more to this thread. For reference do we a Slave Trade Denier in this thread? My brain keeps saying no it cant be but my eyes can't seem to read it any different.

 

[ramuh]

Space Moors? Did they colonize the moon too?

 

[Zeliard]

You guys.

You know how sometimes you say "lol" or :dead or whatever because you chuckled a bit? Well.

This thread literally made me hysterical.

It was that damn baseball gif that put me over the edge.

I'm... slowly recovering.

tell me moor

 

[figadapaura]

That thing in the background? I bet it's not even a real boat.

More fabrication. Disgusting.

 

[Lkr]

OP thinks it was the Moors and not the Moops

 

[CornBurrito]

Black, negro and whatever else has a connotative meaning to them. Black actually means pale or blank, not dark.

Black used to mean pale. It doesn't anymore and hasn't for a long time. As people keep saying, definition changes are legitimate.

 

[Mysterious]

tell me moor

omg lolololololol

Holy shit.

 

[Jenenser]

But it was UNDERWATER. How can you carry slaves like that?!

10/10

 

[Pastry]

You guys.

You know how sometimes you say "lol" or :dead or whatever because you chuckled a bit? Well.

This thread literally made me hysterical.

It was that damn baseball gif that put me over the edge.

I'm... slowly recovering.

Baseball gif? There is so much so sift through here I can't find it.

 

[Cyan]

I'm... slowly recovering.

And... nope. Breaking down again.

I think you guys killed me. :/

 

[figadapaura]

Were the slaves fed food and water and if so where did the supplies go if there were hundreds of them packed on the ship?

A lot of them died, you know?

 

[Omega Ultimus]

 

[EdibleKnife]

Were the slaves fed food and water and if so where did the supplies go if there were hundreds of them packed on the ship?

What? Food and water were stored in barrels and in holds on the ships. Ships are made with that accommodation even today.

 

[Inquisitive_Ghost]

tell me moor

Oh god, this one got me laughing hard.

 

[Makonero]

tell me moor

I can't stop laughing. It is like the Joker just released some laughing gas. Holy crap. This thread. Good God, this thread.

 

[EmCeeGramr]

Were the slaves fed food and water and if so where did the supplies go if there were hundreds of them packed on the ship?

Probably in the space where they didn't keep slaves. Transatlantic voyages would have required preserved foods kept in barrels and casks, which could be stored rather efficiently. You're also acting like slaves were well fed on their voyage.

 

[cdyhybrid]

How do you know those diagrams are real? Were you there?

 

[watershed]

OP thinks it was the Moors and not the Moops

Aw god, this one really got me.

 

[potam]

BRITISH slave ship. Learn to read

 

[Lissar]

OP seems like such a nice guy.

 

[block tower]

Were the slaves fed food and water and if so where did the supplies go if there were hundreds of them packed on the ship?

efoods direct.

 

[cobragt4001]

What? Food and water were stored in barrels and in holds on the ships. Ships are made with that accommodation even today.

So there was enough water on a ship for the crew and the hundreds of slaves, ok.

 

[AntoneM]

And... nope. Breaking down again.

I think you guys killed me. :/

Cyan, as if that's your real color.

 

[Kazerei]

So there was enough water on a ship for the crew and the hundreds of slaves, ok.

Yes. It's not like the slaves were fed three square meals a day and kept well hydrated.

 

[watershed]

Were the slaves fed food and water and if so where did the supplies go if there were hundreds of them packed on the ship?

In this thread you've gone from acting really smart to being really dumb. Fascinating.

 

[PBalfredo]

I'm sure this thread deserves mention in the "Good, Bad and Ugly of NeoGAF" thread, but I can't decide for which category.

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Were the slaves fed food and water and if so where did the supplies go if there were hundreds of them packed on the ship?

Do you know you can survive literally months on just water if you have sufficient body mass? Or did you think these people were being fed steak and lobster every night?

 

[Nexas]

So there was enough water on a ship for the crew and the hundreds of slaves, ok.

There wasn't. That's why so many slaves died on the voyage.

 

[Makonero]

Were the slaves fed food and water and if so where did the supplies go if there were hundreds of them packed on the ship?

It was airdropped in by space-faring moops.

 

[devious.one]

Baseball gif? There is so much so sift through here I can't find it.

How can slavery be real if our eyes aren't real?



A summary in gif form:

.

 

[Omega Ultimus]

How do you know those diagrams are real? Were you there?

BRITISH slave ship. Learn to read

Sorry, I have to go get my Thetan levels checked.

 

[EdibleKnife]

So there was enough water on a ship for the crew and the hundreds of slaves, ok.

Rationing. Slavers get the bulk, slaves get what is the least amount necessary for them to survive the trip. These weren't hearty feasts.

 

[cdyhybrid]

Does this mean I've never actually eaten food or drank a beverage in my life?

I mean, those meals don't physically exist at this very second.

Am I dead?

 

[Makonero]

Sorry, I have to go get my Thetan levels checked.

Wrong species of crazy.

 

[Pastry]

.

Doesn't work for me on ios

 

[Lkr]

Rationing. Slavers get the bulk, slaves get what is the least amount necessary for them to survive the trip. These weren't hearty feasts.

you mean they didn't celebrate thanksgiving on these voyages? these slavers sound like bad people

 

[ramuh]

Probably in the space where they didn't keep slaves. Transatlantic voyages would have required preserved foods kept in barrels and casks, which could be stored rather efficiently. You're also acting like slaves were well fed on their voyage.

Brined Pork etc. Salted food in barrels. Meat can last for long period of times for Trans-atlantic voyages. Salt-free water was moor of an issue.