1775-Oct.-13: A woman branded with “LSM” on her right arm passed away at the Ouidah roadstead after suffering from both lethargy (inanition) and scurvy.

1775-Oct.-13: A woman branded with “LSM” on her right arm passed away at the Ouidah roadstead after suffering from both lethargy (inanition) and scurvy. The ship’s journal noted that her death occurred “quickly enough” after the symptoms became severe during their time at anchor. These combined conditions often indicated extreme psychological and physical stress, reflecting the trauma of the initial capture and imprisonment. Her death represents yet another unit of lost capital for the merchants in the cold commercial calculus of the eighteenth-century slave trade.