The Brothers reached Grenada with 180 enslaved people; the voyage reconstruction reports 179 disembarked. This difference shows that arrival and disembarkation totals are not interchangeable. The surviving commercial record counts people as units in a transaction and offers little evidence of their identities or experiences.
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What does the difference between 180 people arriving on the Brothers and 179 recorded as disembarked show?
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These are distinct measurements in the records and should not be conflated.