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    The Zong massacre was a mass killing of more than 130 enslaved African people by the crew of the British slave ship Zong on and in the days following 29...
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    memorialize the slaves killed in the Zong massacre of 1781. More than 132 slaves were thrown overboard at sea from the Zong. They were sacrificed by the crew...
    7 KB (527 words) - 02:45, 12 May 2023
  • of legal significance, as a court case is heard on what became known as the Zong massacre, when slaves were thrown overboard from a slave ship and the owner...
    51 KB (5,600 words) - 01:59, 23 September 2024
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    9,148 died. Gregson was the co-owner of a ship called the Zong, whose crew perpetrated the Zong massacre. William Gregson was born on 12 January 1721...
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    Case was the co-owner of the slave ship Zong, whose crew perpetrated the Zong massacre. After the massacre, the ship owners went to court in an attempt...
    12 KB (1,283 words) - 01:03, 22 September 2024
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    a successful autobiography, who told him of the horrific events aboard the Zong. Sharp immediately became involved in the court case, facing his old adversary...
    46 KB (6,466 words) - 17:51, 27 September 2024
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    subject matter. In 1781, the captain of a slave ship inbound to Jamaica, the Zong, had ordered 132 slaves to be thrown overboard when drinking water was...
    26 KB (3,682 words) - 06:32, 18 October 2024
  • Mass grave List of riots The Zong case at understandingslavery.com Gillison, Douglas (1962). Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942. Australia in the War...
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    July 1783 because of this trial. Walvin notes that by the late 1780s, the Zong case had become an important symbol of the abuses of the slave trade, having...
    12 KB (1,359 words) - 00:40, 22 September 2024
  • West Africa who are enslaved on the Zong James Kelsall, first mate of the Zong Robert Stubbs, a passenger on the Zong and former slave ship captain William...
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    opposition to slavery was increasing. Many abolitionists were aroused by the Zong massacre, whose details became known during litigation in 1783, when the...
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  • poem internationally as performance art. The poem focuses on victims of the Zong massacre, approximately 150 enslaved Africans who were murdered for insurance...
    2 KB (253 words) - 14:43, 31 October 2022
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    toddlers were not wanted because of everyday maintenance. For example, the Zong, a British slave ship, took too many enslaved on a voyage to the New World...
    29 KB (3,719 words) - 13:37, 2 November 2024
  • and oboe. British composer Peter Fribbins composed a septet (subtitled "The Zong Affair") for the same instrumentation as Beethoven's, but took his influence...
    11 KB (1,146 words) - 02:51, 15 June 2024
  • valuable. In 1788 the Slave Trade Act 1788 was passed, partly in response to the Zong Massacre to ameliorate the conditions under which slaves might be transported...
    36 KB (5,203 words) - 20:38, 21 October 2024
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    Archived from the original on 31 March 2012. Walvin, James (2011). The Zong : a massacre, the law and the end of slavery. New Haven: Yale University...
    17 KB (1,890 words) - 03:06, 3 September 2024
  • left property to Magdalene College, and also founded two scholarships. The Zong massacre of 1781 prompted Peckard to speak strongly against slave trade...
    8 KB (1,108 words) - 07:58, 17 August 2024
  • (anteater-like creatures) appear as residents of the Jungle of Nool. Unlike the Zong from the original book (which is a pink anteater-like creature who appears...
    4 KB (501 words) - 08:31, 10 September 2024
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    Laboratories F.C. The same month, it hosted the semifinals and final of the Zong United Kick-off Football Tournament 2012. As part of the Punjab International...
    8 KB (707 words) - 01:06, 13 October 2024
  • conducted by Robertas Šervenikas Dances & Laments – Guild (GMCD 7397). The Zong Affair, Dances & Laments, '...that which echoes in eternity' Porphyria's...
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