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The payments came from forfeitures of slave ships and fines on their owners, with the proceeds divided 50-50 between the government and the litigants.

A congressional investigation into the program likened one boat used to transport deportees to an “18th-century slave ship.”

In this final section, a haunting combination of music and dance, Brooks calls up ghosts and ancestors from whalers and slave ships.

Gallagher is particularly interested in the phenomenon of whale falls — whale carcasses that sink to the ocean bed — and their resemblance to sunken slave ships.

It’s almost like a slave ship, like individuals chained into a boat together.