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by James Walvin
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The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery James Walvin on FREE shipping on qualifying offers On November 29 1781 Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard onethird of his cargo a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America The captain believed his ship was off course The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery But by any standard the one put forward in 1783 by Liverpool merchants regarding their ship the Zong was exceptional For the Zong was a slave ship the lost ‘cargo’ was human and the 132 enslaved Africans claimed for had been brutally murdered in order to save on dwindling water supplies when the Zong overshot its Jamaican destination The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery Kindle Edition by The Zong was a slave ship that during a 1781 voyage threw over the side to their grisly deaths several hundred slaves ostensibly because a shortage of water necessitated such action if the remaining Africans and the crew were to survive The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery on JSTOR Book Info The Zong Book Description On November 29 1781 Captain Collingwood of the British shipZongcommanded his crew to throw overboard onethird of his cargo a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America The captain believed his ship was off course and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery The captain believed his ship was off course and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the Zong the lawsuit that ensued how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery by The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery On November 29 1781 Captain Collingwood of the British ship commanded his crew to throw overboard onethird of his cargo a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America The captain believed his ship was off course and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall The Zong A Massacre the Law and the End of Slavery On November 29 1781 Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard onethird of his cargo a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America The captain believed his ship was off course and he feared there was not enough drinking water to last until landfall The Zong a massacre the law and the end of slavery in Without the episode of the Zong Walvin contends the process of ending the slave trade would have taken an entirely different moral and political trajectory He concludes with a fascinating discussion of how the case of the Zong though unique in the history of slave ships has come to be understood as typical of life on all such ships The Zong Massacre 1781 – BlackPast The slave ship Zong departed the coast of Africa on 6 September 1781 with 470 slaves Since this human chattel was such a valuable commodity at that time many captains took on more slaves than their ships could accommodate in order to maximize profits Zong massacre Wikipedia The Zong massacre was the mass killing of more than 130 African slaves by the crew of the British slave ship Zong on and in the days following 29 November 1781 The Gregson slavetrading syndicate based in Liverpool owned the ship and sailed her in the Atlantic slave trade As was common business practice they had taken out insurance on the lives of the slaves as cargo
