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Now, he is familiar with the concept.
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When you come down to it,
it's all about money, isn't it?
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Slaves, production, money.
I mean, that's the idea of it.
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Whether it's here or there.
I'm confused.
:42:15
Do your people routinely
slaughter their slaves
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in the manner that you just
so vividly described to us?
:42:26
Of course they don't.
What would be the point of that?
:42:30
Killing your own slaves is like
burning down your own house or hut,
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isn't it?
:42:38
How do you explain that paradox?
:42:46
I don't understand what you mean.
:42:49
Sure you do.
As does everyone here.
:42:52
The behaviour you attribute to
your tormentors - your victims -
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and therefore every other
aspect of your testimony,
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makes no sense.
:43:05
- Not even to you.
:43:07
But thank you. Like all good works
of fiction, it was entertaining.
:43:12
Nothing more.
:43:24
Captain Fitzgerald,
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please explain your duties
in Her Majesty's navy.
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To patrol the Ivory Coast
for slave ships.
:43:31
Because?
:43:33
Because slavery is banned
in British law, sir.
:43:37
Yet the abduction of men from the
British protectorate of Sierra Leone
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and their illegal transportation
as described by Cinque,
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- is not unheard of, is it?
- Not even unusual, regrettably.
:43:48
What, if anything, in his account of
his ordeal, do you find believable?
:43:54
His description of the slave
fortress, for one thing.
:43:59
There is such a place.