A deleted scene reveals the Black Pearl wasn't always black — it burned and sank because Jack Sparrow refused to transport human cargo for the East India Trading Company. Beckett set the ship ablaze as punishment for freeing the slaves, and Jack rebuilt it from the wreckage, making its blackened hull a permanent monument to his act of defiance. The line 'People aren't cargo' was cut from the final film despite being the moral spine of his entire character.
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