Smuggled Slaves Were Super Profitable for the Government

The system could be gamed yet i yeahYeah so all this brings me to the story of jon la fite a french pirate who spent half of his year robbing and raping and stealing whole ships full of booty on the spanish main. The government had a real interest in actually people telling them where contraband enslaved human beings were so they would pay a bounty on people who could turn in contrat like hey there's a bunch of contraband slaves here such helpful citizens received a percentage of the sale price of the slaves as a reward are you seeing how this could be the system could beGAMED yet i yeahyeah so  all this is objectively cool it is a pirate