Poetic decisions later, but in addition to what you said, I was thinking of a very specific case, the Zong massacre, which in the long lung helped turning the tide against slavery in GB, where the owners of the ship which did the dumping were taken to court - not because they murdered 142 living but sick or otherwise deemed not profitable enough slaves, but for insurance fraud (as they wanted compensation from their insurance company, as was customary in "act of God" cases where the slaves actually did die of natural causes. This went through several instances, attracted a lot of publicity on both sides of the Atlantic and in the end was decided in the insurance company's favour.
ETA: also, the reason why I put this in was because it does symbolize the inhumanity of slavery and greed and I did want to include slavery in my version. So no Boston Tea Party as a replacement would do.
Ahhh, thank you! I figured you might have something specific in mind, and I didn't know about the Zong massacre until now.
ETA: also, the reason why I put this in was because it does symbolize the inhumanity of slavery and greed and I did want to include slavery in my version. So no Boston Tea Party as a replacement would do.
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Re: We didn't start the fire, 18th century version
Date: 2024-08-07 06:04 am (UTC)ETA: also, the reason why I put this in was because it does symbolize the inhumanity of slavery and greed and I did want to include slavery in my version. So no Boston Tea Party as a replacement would do.
Re: We didn't start the fire, 18th century version
Date: 2024-08-07 03:10 pm (UTC)ETA: also, the reason why I put this in was because it does symbolize the inhumanity of slavery and greed and I did want to include slavery in my version. So no Boston Tea Party as a replacement would do.
The hive mind at work again. :)
Re: We didn't start the fire, 18th century version
Date: 2024-08-08 12:29 pm (UTC)