04291nam 2200781Ia 450 991045782670332120200520144314.01-283-29255-697866132925510-300-18075-610.12987/9780300180756(CKB)2550000000056755(OCoLC)758389538(CaPaEBR)ebrary10502589(SSID)ssj0000644652(PQKBManifestationID)11377730(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000644652(PQKBWorkID)10680212(PQKB)10711637(MiAaPQ)EBC3420738(DE-B1597)485872(DE-B1597)9780300180756(Au-PeEL)EBL3420738(CaPaEBR)ebr10502589(OCoLC)923596691(EXLCZ)99255000000005675520110124d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe Zong[electronic resource] a massacre, the law and the end of slavery /James WalvinNew Haven Yale University Pressc20111 online resource (269 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-300-12555-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. A painting and a slave ship -- Chapter 2. The city built on slavery -- Chapter 3. Crews and captives -- chapter 4. The making of the Zong -- chapter 5. All at sea -- Chapter 6. An open secret -- Chapter 7. In the eyes of the law -- Chapter 8. A matter of necessity -- Chapter 9. In the wake of the Zong -- Chapter 10. Abolition and after -- Chapter 11. Remembering the Zong -- Notes -- Further Reading -- IndexOn 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.Slave tradeEnglandLiverpoolHistory18th centurySlave tradeJamaicaHistory18th centurySlavesViolence againstHistory18th centuryMass murderHistory18th centurySeafaring lifeHistory18th centuryTrialsEnglandLondonHistory18th centuryMarine insuranceGreat BritainHistorySlaveryLaw and legislationGreat BritainHistoryAntislavery movementsGreat BritainHistoryElectronic books.Slave tradeHistorySlave tradeHistorySlavesViolence againstHistoryMass murderHistorySeafaring lifeHistoryTrialsHistoryMarine insuranceHistory.SlaveryLaw and legislationHistory.Antislavery movementsHistory.306.3/62094275309033Walvin James218359MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457826703321The Zong2444140UNINA