(According to those who drove the slave ship), if we lose 25 to 50 percent of 'cargo,' we could make money.

If it's sent by ship then it's a cargo, if it's sent by road then it's a shipment.

Africans in the hull of a slave ship.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

Mobile's AfricaTown:
Published timelines of African-American history invariably mention that the last slave ship to bring Africans to North America was the *Clotilde* … what they never explain is how this happened 50 years after the United States banned the importation of slaves.
The explanation is both trivial and tragic. Timothy Meaher, a wealthy Mobile shipbuilder, made a wager over a few whiskies that he could elude federal agents…
…While descendents of the Clotilde captives still hold reunions in the area, there is little physical evidence of this community’s origins, except for the bust of Cudjoe Lewis…
…Lewis (who was originally called ‘Kazoola’) died in 1945, possibly the last surviving slave-ship captive in America.

We shipped 60 to 70 percent of what we normally would have expected to ship out of this harvest.