Since 2008, m. nourbeSe philip's Zong! has haunted readers with the submerged stories of a massacre on an 18th-century slave ship. Now 15 years later, an anniversary edition was published on Oct ...

It was a draft of a letter intended for the British Admiralty demanding criminal action against officers and crew of the Zong slave ship, for the murder of 132 Africans — 122 of whom had been ...

It was published it in October 2023. In November 1781, a mass murder began aboard the slave ship 'Zong', some 500 kilometres out in the Caribbean Sea west of Jamaica. "The events on the ...

Historians say the British-owned slave ship Zong left Ghana for the Caribbean with 442 captive Africans on board. But when the ship arrived in Black River on December 22, only 208 had survived the ...

A description of conditions on board the slave ships and an outline of the Zong case of 29 November 1781. Poor weather conditions and inept navigation resulted in a journey that took months rather ...

In 1781 the crew of the Zong slave ship threw 132 enslaved Africans overboard to their deaths, after running low on water supplies. The incident caused outrage and was used to publicise the ...

It was an unusual and distressing insurance claim – concerning a massacre of 133 captives, thrown overboard the Zong slave ship. The slave trade pioneered a new kind of finance, secured on the ...

It was an unusual and distressing insurance claim – concerning a massacre of 133 captives, thrown overboard the Zong slave ship. The slave trade pioneered a new kind of finance, secured on the ...

In particular, the Adriana catastrophe reminded me of the case of the slave ship the Zong. (Its original name was actually Zorg, meaning “care” in Dutch, but a mistake was apparently made when ...