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The Zong
James Walvin
其他書名
A Massacre, the Law & the End of Slavery
出版
Yale University Press
, 2011-10-11
主題
History / African American & Black
Social Science / Slavery
History / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
True Crime / Historical
ISBN
0300180756
9780300180756
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kIp9er6RDyYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
“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.”—Gad Heuman, co-editor of
The Routledge History of Slavery
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. 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
Zong
, the lawsuit that ensued, how the murder of 132 slaves affected debates about slavery, and the way we remember the infamous
Zong
today.
Historian James Walvin explores all aspects of the
Zong
’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
Zong
, 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
Zong
, though unique in the history of slave ships, has come to be understood as typical of life on all such ships.
“Engaging . . . [Walvin’s] expertise shines through with surgical use of statistics and absorbing deviations into subjects such as Turner’s masterpiece
The Slave Ship
and the slave-fueled growth of Liverpool.”—
Daily Mail