The ship's articles typically also regulated issues regarding discipline, the resolving of disputes, bans on prostitution, gambling, intoxication in battle and "the rape of female captives." Furthermore, the "early form of industrial injury compensation scheme" mentioned above, as well as the ...
The crew themselves represented the breaking of national and traditional norms of that time, as alongside one another there could have been “Swedes, escaped African slaves, Caribbean Creoles, Native Americans, and Arabs” [35, p. xxiii], with certain studies showing that depending on the ship,...