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Charlie
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The Prussians mandating that its agents officially take part in Fetish with West African slave traders, equating it to the way Europeans valued signing signatures, is a fascinating titbit of cross-cultural interaction. Two slavers, done negotiating a deal, signing paperwork with the one hand and stuffing gunpowder or shavings from a leopard claw into their mouth to chew on with the other, as they made horror into law
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Charlie
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"Most of the captains surrendered the gold in coins, but asked for receipts for insurance purposes. [Bartholomew] Roberts, who generally had a sense of humour about the surreal turn his life had taken, agreed and signed them as 'a gentleman of fortune'."

Wonderfully little interpretive flourish there about Roberts' psychology.
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