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The other two are indecipherable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlunderbusses such as this one were used by slave-ship crews as deterrents to enslaved Africans. The fear that captives onboard would organize mass uprisings was ever-present. The maker of this particular weapon, John Sibley, supplied weapons to the Board of Ordnance, the Hudson\u003cbr\u003eJ. 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