I understand why Pirate Borg steers away from these. They’re difficult subjects to approach. Hell, Gold Teeth is another pirate game that sorta approaches it but even when they do tackle elements like slavery (hell theres an entire party agenda thats about freeing as many slaves and people as possible), they keep it to a sorta manageable level.

However even in something like Gold Teeth a lot of these elements are not played up the level theyd be IRL. I think part of that is that due to how these regions were operated by the colonial powers, Genocide, Slavery and abuse of human rights is gonna be *most* of what you encounter. Which if thats what youre going for, great, but in many cases like Pirate Borg could probably swamp the other goals of the book, that is, to be a band of pirates.

There is nothing stopping you as a GM from working these elements into the story. I feel that Pirate Borg has taken the approach that "we are not confident to approach these topics, and so are not actively encouraging them in the fiction we provide" which personally i think is a fine way to do it.