The Zong - by James Walvin (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The first full review of the mass murder by crew members on the slave ship <i>Zong</i> and the lasting repercussions of this horrifying event</b> <p/> On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship <i>Zong</i> commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third 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. This book is the first to examine in detail the deplorable killings on the <i>Zong</i>, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous <i>Zong</i> today. <p/> Historian James Walvin explores all aspects of the <i>Zong</i>'s voyage and the subsequent trial--a case brought to court not for the murder of the slaves but as a suit against the insurers who denied the owners' claim that their "cargo" had been necessarily jettisoned. The scandalous case prompted wide debate and fueled Britain's awakening abolition movement. Without the episode of the <i>Zong</i>, 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 <i>Zong</i>, though unique in the history of slave ships, has come to be understood as typical of life on all such ships.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>'Few who have studied the Atlantic slave trade are unaware of the infamous story of the <i>Zong</i>, when in 1781 over 130 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard alive in order that the ship's owners might claim insurance on them. James Walvin's achievement is firmly to locate this notorious episode within the larger history of the British slave trade as well as the beginnings of the movement to abolish it. This is Walvin at his best.' - David Richardson, co-author of <i>Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade</i> <p/>'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. But it also does much more: <i>The Zong</i> places the ship, the slave trade and the subsequent campaign of the abolitionists in their historical and contemporary context.' - Gad Heuman, co-editor of <i>The Routledge History of Slavery</i> <p/><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>James Walvin</b> is professor emeritus, University of York, and a world authority on transatlantic slavery. Among his many previous books are <i>Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire</i> and <i>The Trader, The Owner, The Slave: Parallel Lives in the Age of Slavery</i>. He lives in York, UK.
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