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December 26, 2022
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December 26, 2022
“A lucid, fluent and fascinating account of the Zong. The book details the horror of the mass killing of enslaved Africans on board the ship in 1781.”—Gad Heuman, co-editor of The Routledge History of Slavery
On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a cargo of Africans certain for slavery in America. The captain believed his ship was off target, and he feared there was not sufficient ingesting water to final till landfall. This guide is the primary to look at intimately the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, how the homicide of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way in which we keep in mind the notorious Zong at the moment.
Historian James Walvin explores all elements of the Zong’s voyage and the next trial—a case dropped at courtroom not for the homicide of the slaves however as a swimsuit towards the insurers who denied the house owners’ declare that their “cargo” had been essentially jettisoned. The scandalous case prompted large debate and fueled Britain’s awakening abolition motion. Without the episode of the Zong, Walvin contends, the method of ending the slave commerce would have taken a wholly completely different ethical and political trajectory. He concludes with an interesting dialogue of how the case of the Zong, although distinctive within the historical past of slave ships, has come to be understood as typical of life on all such ships.
“Engaging . . . [Walvin’s] expertise shines through with surgical use of statistics and absorbing deviations into subjects such as Turner’s masterpiece The Slave Ship and the slave-fueled growth of Liverpool.”—Daily Mail
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