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.

2020年6月10日 · Hearing arguments in the case of the Zong, a slave ship, the Chief Justice of the King’s Bench in London states that a massacre of enslaved African “was the same as if Horses had been thrown...

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 captains took on more slaves than their ships could accommodate in order to maximize profits.

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 explores, reminds us that while Britain played a key role in abolition, its role in the global slave trade should not be forgotten…

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 on behalf of his Liverpool owners.

In 1781, British enslavers killed 130 enslaved Africans by throwing them off the ship Zong. The murders were the result of a cruel trade, made possible by London’s insurers.

2025年2月27日 · One of the most infamous incidents in the history of the transatlantic slave trade took place in 1781 aboard the slave ship Zong. The ship, owned by a syndicate that included George Case and William Gregson, departed from Accra on August 18, 1781, with 442 enslaved Africans—more than twice the number it could safely transport.

The murder of 132 African captives on the Zong in November 1781 and its subsequent publicity as an insurance case which showed the inhumanity of the slave trade in graphic detail was a cause célèbre in the history of eighteenth-century abolitionism.

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 account of how slaves were being murdered. The ship was under the command of …

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 a representation of the wider story of the slave trade.