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Offers an account of the overall shape of organised antislavery from its beginnings in the 1780s, and provides fresh perspectives from which to assess contending interpretations of antislavery.
The Zong: a massacre, the law and the end of slavery
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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 murd…