Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (2014)
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Re: Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (2014)
#2Here is a HN thread from 2015 with 131 comments for those who are interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10802088
Re: Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (2014)
#3What a neat story. I read the whole article, thanks for sharing.
Re: Enslaved and then marooned on Tromelin Island for fifteen years (2014)
#4There is a great movie called Paradise Lagoon that is similar- a family and their domestic servants are stranded on an island. Spoiler: the butler is the only guy fit to lead everyone to survival.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Admirable_Crichton_(1957_f...
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#5Amazing story. Was I the only one who was disappointed that I cannot click the images to see a larger photos?? Surprisingly the internet doesn't seem to have a better resolution as well... :(
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#6"Illegally enslaved" isn't accurate. The slave trade was legal at the time. What wasn't legal was the ship (and/or captain), and the destination.
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#7"Illegally enslaved" isn't accurate. The slave trade was legal at the time. What wasn't legal was the ship (and/or captain), and the destination.
How is that not accurate? Renting out a room for someone to live in is legal but in some places it isn't illegal to do so without the proper zoning and/or permits. Therefore you would call someone doing that "illegally renting".
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#8I wonder which life would have been better for them. Would you trade everything for freedom?
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#9"Illegally enslaved" isn't accurate. The slave trade was legal at the time. What wasn't legal was the ship (and/or captain), and the destination.
How is that not accurate? Renting out a room for someone to live in is legal but in some places it isn't illegal to do so without the proper zoning and/or permits. Therefore you would call someone doing that "illegally renting".
Because "enslaving" refers to the action of making someone a slave, not to the action of shipping someone who was already a slave to a new location. That's "illegally shipped", not "illegally enslaved".
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#10I wonder which life would have been better for them. Would you trade everything for freedom?
I should say “freedom”. Three square miles of freedom that is.