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So all the ocean currents that come up from the Caribbean, come straight across and keep this.

It's part of the world that little bit warmer.

See, now that makes sense.

And that's why the British said, well, hell, all that great weather from Caribbean,

we're just going to go down there and own all those islands.

So you set the Navy down there, kicked everybody's ass,

and now, you know, yeah, we're going to protect our good weather.

It just happens to be that that's the way the wind blew.

What, the weather or the Royal Navy domination of the world?

Well, not the Royal Navy, the trade as much as anything else.

I mean, Bristol, as a port, was built on sugar, tobacco and the slave trade.

The ships used to leave Bristol. They couldn't go straight across to America because the winds blow the other way.

So they used to go, they used to carry largely ballast down to the west coast of Africa, go around, mug the natives,

load them on board the ships, take them then across to the Caribbean,

offload them there to the plantations where they'd be used as slave labour,

and then pick up the crops of either sugar or tobacco and then bring them back to Bristol.

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