Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Walvin, James, author.

Title The Zong : a massacre, the law and the end of slavery / James Walvin
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : illustrations, map
Contents A painting and a ship -- The city built on slavery -- Crews and captives -- The making of the Zong -- All at sea -- An open secret -- In the eyes of the law -- A matter of necessity -- In the wake of the Zong -- Abolition and after -- Remembering the Zong
Summary On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. This book examines the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, and how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Zong (Ship)
SUBJECT Zong (Ship) fast
Subject Slave trade -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 18th century
Slave trade -- Jamaica -- History -- 18th century
Enslaved persons -- Violence against -- History -- 18th century
Mass murder -- History -- 18th century
Seafaring life -- History -- 18th century
Trials -- England -- London -- History -- 18th century
Marine insurance -- Great Britain -- History
Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Great Britain -- History
Antislavery movements -- Great Britain -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Slavery.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Antislavery movements
Marine insurance
Mass murder
Seafaring life
Slave trade
Slavery -- Law and legislation
Trials
Massaker.
Sklaverei.
England -- Liverpool
England -- London
Great Britain
Jamaica
Großbritannien.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011001489
ISBN 9780300180756
0300180756
1283292556
9781283292559
9786613292551
6613292559