During the slave trade europeans saw african slaves as cargo traded for profit, not people. In result slaves were stuffed and piled in uninhabitable spaces below deck where they deficated and slept in the same place. Food and water were scarce, death and disease were high.
A blog, this is assumed as both the University and Museum websites are considered to be managed by informed, qualified individuals whereas on a blog the credentials of the writer are unknown.
I presume this is from Lewis Carol's nonsense poem "Jabberwocky," when he uses the phrases "vorpal" it means deadly. A deadly sword.
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After the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro in 1959, a Cuban exodus began as the new government allied itself with the Soviet Union and began to introduce communism. From 1960 to 1979, tens of thousands of Cubans left Cuba, with the vast majority coming from Cuba's educated, landowning upper class.
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