The Zong massacre was a mass killing of more than 130 enslaved African people by the crew of the British slave ship Zong over several days from 29 November 1781.

2011年10月11日 · 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 …

2021年11月24日 · The massacre of 133 African people and resulting law case – not for murder, but insurance – focuses attention to the treatment of enslaved people and, as James Walvin …

2023年5月26日 · Starting on November 29, 1781, the crew of the British slave ship Zong threw dozens of enslaved Africans overboard to preserve supplies.

2020年6月10日 · The Zong arrived in Black River, Jamaica with 208 enslaved people on board. The trial commenced in March of 1783, and the court found that the insurance company was …

The Zong had been a Dutch vessel, the Zorgue, seized by the British in 1781 off West Africa, along with 244 Africans on board. It was then bought by the captain of a Liverpool slave ship …

What happened on the Zong was an exceptional story of mass murder, but those killings have come to be seen not merely as a single event (the story of one ship among thousands) but as …

2023年2月21日 · In November 1781, the captain and crew of the British slave ship Zong threw 133 African slaves overboard, killing them. The reason for this act of brutality was to claim …

Zong, 1781 One of the biggest cases in the history of the Atlantic Slave trade brought out the issues of carelessness and selfish acts. The story of the slave ship Zong gives a remarkable …

2021年12月24日 · The Zong arrived in Black River, Jamaica, on 22 December. Captain Luke Collingwood died shortly afterwards, and the surviving African captives were advertised for sale.