The cruelty from unchecked greed knows no limit.

[Scuba]

"In the approximately fifty years between the beginning of European trading of African slaves and the European discovery of the Americas, native [African] traders would keep the cost of slaves high by castrating the males so a natural increase of their 'commodity' wouldn't destroy their trade. With expansion into the Western Hemisphere, the need for a large labor force ended the practice."

from 'European Beginnings in West Africa', by John W. Blake

[1StrongBlackMan]

1. Ahhh ....

the "Diamond Controler" model of artificial scarcity.

But that said, I am fairly well versed in the slave trade and this is the first time I've come across this.