Talk:Dynamite
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I'm planning to expand this into a full article, tracking the dynamite and its impact on the lives of the lostaways. I'm researching it before I start rather than as I go. --Nigedo 19:12, 23 June 2006 (PDT)
I recall that box we saw the dynamite in looked almost too modern and millitary for an old slave ship, even a very well preserved ship. I suspect that has no meaning but was something that suck in my mind.
Am almost certain that the dynamite came later. Dynamite wasn't invented until 1863 after the slave trade (though not slavery) was abolished in most nations. Of course it could always have been transporting the slaves illegaly or using the "contract scam" in which African (and other) natives were promised jobs overseas and wound up virtual slaves after signingh contracts that (since they were illiterate) they had no way of knowing what they'd agreed to.--Tricksterson 08:29, 13 March 2006 (PST)
Dynamite and other explosives have very little force without being compacted, ie: simply covered with dirt, so the explosion has something to press against. I find it highly unlikely that just setting the dynamite on top the hatch as Jack did would actually have blown it open.
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- Locke points out upon entering the Black Rock that the skeletons suggest the ship was used for slave trade. However, dynamite wasn't invented until 1863 -- long after the slave trade was made illegal in most countries.
