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The Zong: a massacre, the law and the end of slavery

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Believing his ship was off course - and lacking enough drinking water to last until landfall - Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of its cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America.

This book examines the deplorable killings of the Zong.

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Product Details
Yale University Press
0300180756 / 9780300180756
eBook (EPUB)
18/10/2011
English
164 pages
140 x 216 mm
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