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The Zong : a massacre, the law and the end of slavery / James Walvin.
- Title
- The Zong : a massacre, the law and the end of slavery / James Walvin.
- Author
- Walvin, James
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | HT1164.L5 W35 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 248 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps; 22 cm.
- 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.
- Subject
- Zong (Ship)
- 1700-1799
- Slave trade > Liverpool > History > 18th century
- Slave trade > Jamaica > History > 18th century
- Enslaved persons > History > 18th century
- Mass murder > History > 18th century
- Seafaring life > History > 18th century
- Trials > London > History > 18th century
- Marine insurance > Great Britain > History
- Slavery > History. > Great Britain
- Antislavery movements > Great Britain > History
- Slave trade > History > 18th century
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780300125559 (hardback)
- 0300125550 (hardback)
- LCCN
- ^^2011001489
- OCLC
- 701242184
- SCSB-10958068
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library